Plato Flashcards
Socratic paradox
People don’t desire bad things
Think they are good, don’t desire bad things
Knowing they are bad, unhappy no one wants happy
Memos first defintion
Just a list of virtues Different virtues for different people The thing that they all share Health- systematic ambiguity Game - family resemblance Context relativity - tall
Memos second definition
To be able to rule over people Add justly Justice is virtue Is Roundness shape or a shape Shape? Limit of a solid
Menos Third definition
Desire for beauitful things and the power to aquire them
Nah cus socratic paradox
Too broad and too narrow
Memos paradox
Paradox of inquiry
Don’t know what something is how can you look for it and you do you know when you’ve found it
Theory of recollection
Soul is eternal and knows everything
Slave
Inquiry but knowledge is all or nothing so that’s impossible
Know through experience
Virtue is good
Virtue makes us good, beneficial therefore it itself is beneficial and good
Virtuous people benefit the community
Only knowledge is good
Health wealth and qualities of the mind can be harmful
Only good with accompanied by knowledge
Kant says only good thing is free will - socratic p
Is virtue teachable
Reasonable argument if it’s only way to aquire virtue and some people are actually virtuous
Sophists maybe teach it but can’t agree on ability so nah
Theory of forms
Something many objects have in common when the same term applies to them
Large, good,fire, bed,
Graded by reason not by the senses
Don’t depend on our existence for their existence
Everything is an imperfect copy of a form