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Plato’s Republic

Notes on Great Minds Part 1

theme of imbalance between power. Disjunction between power and knowledge
Moral obligation to go down to the people and chat.
Lots of symbolism in first book
What you want or desire will be the characteristic of the soul and in turn the city
Stating of the themes in the first scene, Framing scene
- Moving down to paraues. Philospher kings move down to the people.
- Attempt to move back up.
- Basic theme, the dialectic between the powerful and the knowledgeable
  - This disjunction between power and knowledge that makes the enquiry necessary
- Glaucon is making all the decisions. Group of men spontaneously turn into a democracy.
Plato always chooses examples to represent something in the person he’s talking to.
Get rid of the old man, the past morality. Clear the slate. Young man who can still be changed.
Being just is the truly social animal. Obligations for education, for the dispersion of knowledge, the ultimate virtue.
Linguistic community (dialogue) sophist, like rhetoric, because there is no need to develop community, there end goal should be silence
When a sophist doesn’t like how the argument goes they become quiet or petulant.
The knower only wants the get the better of the ignorant (for the benefit of others). Cardiologist example.
Bait the young men into the (slightly weak argument with thrasymicus). Igniting their curiosity