Philosophy Ch. 1(Lesson 1 and 2) Flashcards
Bilat
Is the new community created from different families joining together
Village
Only ____ have the capacity to use language to articulate and communicate their thoughts
Humans
The ____ govern
Wise
Between a man and a woman is the first human community
Marriage
Plato’s solution to his political problem is ____, the way to classify people and to determine their social position
Education
The ____ is by nature clearly prior to the existence of the family of the individual
State
Humans are political by nature. They have a natural desire to live in ______ for the sake of self-preservation, common protection, and good life.
Communities
The _____ protect
Soldiers
are able to express their experience of pain and pleasure through various bodily movements.
Animals
Plato’s solution of Education is a ______ way; everyone is given equal opportunity to hold social positions (which are merited, not inherited).
Democratic
exists “when several villages are united in a single community, perfect and large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing… originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life”
State
The _____ provide economic needs
Workers
is formed out of natural evolution of communities, not a product of human conventions.
Political society
Only humans have the ability to _______ out, which enables them to search for truths, goods, beauties, meanings, etc.
reason
Plato’s solution above is _______, only the few who turn out academically successful will hold the highest positions in the society; the rest will either be a worker or soldier
Aristocratic
