read the whole Book II and the allegory of cave in Book VII
text available at http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html
Journals due on September 23
guidance questions:
1. Glaukon mentioned three kinds of good, to which does justice belong?
2. Which problem did Adeimantos find in poems and religion? What does he want Socrates to prove?
3. What's the requirement of guardians in the proposed city?
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Plato: Republic I
Read book I,
text available at http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html
Journals due on Sept. 16
Guidance questions:
1. Can justice do good to friends and do harm to enemies?
2. Does justice mean the advantage of stronger?
3. Is injustice more useful than justice?
text available at http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html
Journals due on Sept. 16
Guidance questions:
1. Can justice do good to friends and do harm to enemies?
2. Does justice mean the advantage of stronger?
3. Is injustice more useful than justice?
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