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Plato’s Republic: Book III

In Book III of The Republic, Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus extend the concept of the kallipolis introduced in the preceding conversation, establishing several key ideas about the ways in which it is necessary to educate and train the souls and bodies of the city’s “guardians”, how the three classes of peoples within the city are decided […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2014 | Tagged with On the Readings, Plato, Republic, Socrates, The Republic

Plato, Republic

Plato, Republic

Christina Hendricks gives the historical political context in which Plato wrote this text, talks about the Socratic elenchus and how it is exemplified in Book I, and discusses the parallel structure of the kallipolis and the soul.

Posted in Christina Hendricks, lecture, powerpoint, Repetition Compulsion, video | Tagged with Greece, kallipolis, philosopher-kings, philosophy, Plato, Republic, Socrates

I believe you but you don’t know what you’re saying? — Gorgias by Plato

I am confused by a very simple point in Plato’s Gorgias. If Gorgias claims that what oratory is is simply being able to persuade a person or crowd without knowledge that he is knowledgable in something he actually isn’t, then what does … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb4-2013 | Tagged with Knowledge, Persuasion, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, Speeches

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