Plato Flashcards
What is the view of justice according to Thrasymachus?
What is good for the stronger. “Might makes right.”
What are the implications of Thrasymachus’s view of justice?
Justice could be tyrannical and still be justice.
Why is a tyrant not happy but miserable?
He always gets the things he wants, and is ultimately alone, living in fear of the people he “serves”
Who is the most happy?
The just person
Between Socrates and Thrasymachus, who believed in a moral order outside of man?
Socrates
What was Plato’s whole endeavor?
“Plato’s whole endeavor was the recovery of order: order in the soul, order in the polis.”
Who were the Sophists? What were their beliefs?
“Teachers of wisdom” who taught for worldly success.
Who believed Man is the measure of all things?
Sophists
Plato’s fundamental principles
- The importance of the individual soul, confined to and corrupted by the world.
- There are divine moral laws operating over mankind.
- True reality lives in ideals, intellect, and imagination.
According to Plato what was a “just” society?
The republic ( the guardians, the fighting men, and the farmers). In this society, Everyman does the work he is best suited to do, for the common good
How did Plato view the relationship between reason, the will, and the appetite?
In the republic, it is the guardians, soilders, and farmers.
What happens to society if men’s souls are disordered?
You cannot restore the state.
