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C: Justice in greek
S: duh. |
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C: greek word for head.
S: Cephalus is a disembodied head, not subject to the needs of the body. |
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c: leader in battle.
S: Polemarchus means leader in battle, is cephalus' son. |
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c: too much courage, boldness.
S: Thrasymachus means overly confident in battle. |
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T: republic
C: the one who doesn't see well, blurred vision.
S: glaucon. |
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T: lecture
C: the soul/mind. |
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T: lecture
C: nothing is solid or fixed, opposite of fundamentalism.
S: talked about in discussion of truth and justice.
to a relativist justice can change according to circumstance. |
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T: republic
C: according to myths the prize of someone who is always just is an afterlife of eternal drunkness.
S: the reward for being just is not a good one. |
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T: republic
C: the beginning of just individuals, they who can reason properly.
S: Glaucon and Adeimantus have the capacity to make reasonable arguments, so Socrates sees the "divine spark" in them. |
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C: being spirited. the spirited part of the Tripartite soul in Plato's Republic.
S: it can be an aid either to the rational part of the soul, or to the appetitive part. Thumos is also used to express human desire for recognition. In The Republic, Thumos is one of the three c parts of the human psyche, along with logos and eros. |
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T: republic
C: moral depravity/moral corruption.
S: Socrates talks about how the bad moral behavior of the gods sets a bad example for the youth, they will mimeic them. |
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c: ppl who are sick and can only stay in bed, not a worthwhile life.
S: socrates believes that these ppl should not let doctors keep them alive, bc if you are not doing your work, you should just die. |
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T: republic
C: art, craft, skill.
s: being able to see justice is a skill, everyone should preform their own techne. when they all do=justice. |
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T: republic
C: fools gold, material gold.
S: Socrates believes we should not want fools gold/moral currency, instead what is important is moral gold-justice, beauty. |
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T: republic
C: the story told to the people to keep them in their class, which philosopher kings decide, after testing.
S: the noble lie, how ppl are divded up. |
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T: republic/lecture
C: argument where ppl quarrel/exchange opinions, not using facts.
s: those people that engage in eristics are not philosophers, but rather philodoxers. "bogus philosophers" |
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t: republic
c: discussing a thesis, to eventually arrive at what is true.
s: the way socrates says we can arrive at the truth. |
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T: lecture
S: the branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being. |
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T: lecture
S: the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge. |
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T: republic
C: lovers of opinion, engage in eristics.
S: ppl who argue, but will never arrive at the truth. |
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t: lecture
c: study of diseased souls, "soul sickness"
s: books 8&9 of republic describe diseased souls. |
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T: the republic
c: allegory of the cave
s: means wonder. |
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t: republic
c: allegory of the cave
s: the puppetmaster, the person who produced the shadows for the prisoners in the cave. |
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c: allegory of the cave
s: underground, of the underworld. where the cave is. |
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c: lecture, allegory of the cave.
s: a line by line interpretation of the text. |
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