Plato Flashcards

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Socratic paradox

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People don’t desire bad things

Think they are good, don’t desire bad things

Knowing they are bad, unhappy no one wants happy

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Memos first defintion

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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
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Memos second definition

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To be able to rule over people
Add justly 
Justice is virtue 
Is Roundness shape or a shape 
Shape? 
Limit of a solid
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Menos Third definition

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Desire for beauitful things and the power to aquire them
Nah cus socratic paradox
Too broad and too narrow

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5
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Memos paradox

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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

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Theory of recollection

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Soul is eternal and knows everything
Slave
Inquiry but knowledge is all or nothing so that’s impossible
Know through experience

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Virtue is good

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Virtue makes us good, beneficial therefore it itself is beneficial and good
Virtuous people benefit the community

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Only knowledge is good

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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

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9
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Is virtue teachable

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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

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Theory of forms

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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

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