Exam 1 Flashcards
(27 cards)
Socrates first crime?
Corrupting the youth
Delphic pronouncement?
No one is wiser than Socrates
Cephalus’s idea of justice?
Justice is speaking the truth and paying debts
Polemarchus’s idea of justice?
Justice is doing good to friends and harming enemies (revised claim - harming those who are bad and helping the good)
Thrasymachus was a sophist who believed?
justice is the advantage of the stronger
Justice and Injustice are?
A vice and a virtue
Ring of Gyges
The ring represents injustice
Fear of the group
Justice simply advances reputation while injustice pays off
Thrasymachus’ Ultimate Reply
Justice is a vice and injustice is a virtue - those who simply follow the rules do so because they are weak
Plato’s anti-democratic thesis
Those who are interested in themselves are unfit to rule
The noble lie/Myth of the metals
Gold - Philosopher Kings
Silver - Auxiliaries
Bronze and Iron - skilled and unskilled labor
Greek Virtues
Wisdom, Courage, Moderation, Justice
Wisdom?
Philosopher Kings
Courage?
Guardians
Moderation?
Relationship between the ruled and rulers
What are Philosopher Kings best at?
Wisdom
What are Auxiliaries best at?
fighting and protecting
What are Workers best at?
making money and products
What are the multiple parts of the psyche?
Spirited, Rational, Appetitive
What are the three parts of the psyche called?
Tripartite soul
Which roles does the tripartite soul serve in the city?
Philosopher King - Rational
Auxiliaries - Spirited
Workers - Apetitive
Why does Plato become an idealist?
He believes that ideas are more real than individual things
Plato’s theory of forms
The intelligible, unchanging, and eternal ideas which inform things that exist
What is “true knowledge?”
The knowledge of the forms
