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What does Plato want to do in the Republic?

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He want’s to define justice

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2
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What is specialisation?

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Requires each person to fulfil the societal role to which nature fitted them into

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What are the 3 parts of the soul?

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Rational, spirited, appetitive

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What does the rational part of the soul do?

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Seeks truth + philosophy

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What does the spirited part of the soul do?

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Desires honour + is resp. for feelings of anger

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What does appetitive part of the soul do?

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Desires for anything - mostly money

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7
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What are the realms divided into?

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Visible + intelligible

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What’s the visible world?

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The universe around us

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What’s the intelligible world?

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The forms: abstract
Absolute goodness + beauty etc

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Who can grasp the forms?

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Only minds trained to grasp the forms - philosophers

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What’s the most important form?

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The form of good

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What’s the aim of education?

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Put right desires into the soul so it desires to move past visible world + to intelligible world to the Form of Good

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13
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What did Plato believe about poets?

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Appeal to the basest part of the soul, imitating unjust inclinations

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14
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Why did Plato forbid homosexual intercourse?

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Cannot be good or beautiful + leads to no fulfilment - doesn’t lead to procreation

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What was the mating festival

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Held among Guardians, where rulers decide which couples should mate in order to breed ‘good’ citizens

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Who were the guardian class?

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A group of warriors + philosophers

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17
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Who did Plato separate the guardian class from?

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Guardian class separated from producers

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18
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Who were the 3 classes?

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Guardians, producers (auxiliaries) + wokers

19
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What was the guardian class responsible for?

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Responsible for ruling the city - chosen among ranks of auxiliaries

20
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What did Plato intend to give to the guardians?

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Give the guardians supreme power

21
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Where are men + women in spheres?

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Women in private spheres
Men in public spheres

22
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What did women do in their spheres?

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Looked after children

23
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What did men do in their spheres?

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They went to war, manual labour + acted politically

24
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How did Plato view the body?

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Merely temporary

25
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What did Plato say human beings are defined by?

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Their soul: responsible for cognitive + physical movements + survives them

26
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How is the soul divided to match society’s functional groups?

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Rational = Guardian (philosopher kings)
Spirited = Warriors
Appetitive = Workers

27
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What did Plato say about women + war?

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If women’s aggressive part of the soul inspires courage, they may be able to defend their city

28
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What are women considered?

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Objects of reproduction

29
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What was exposure?

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The elimination of inapt children

30
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Why might Plato place women on the same level as men?

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Because he believes humans are defined more by their soul

31
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What happened to children produced at mating festivals?

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They were taken from their parents so no one knows which children descend from which adults

32
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What happens if a child is produced from sex at an undesignated time?

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The child will be killed

33
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What do guardians do/not receive?

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No wages + can hold no wealth or property

33
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How do the Guardian class live?

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Together in housing provided by the city

34
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What does Brown say about what Plato believed?

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“Plato believed the abolition of family would improve cohesion of society as a whole”

35
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What does Plato attempt to argue for?

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An ‘ideal state’

36
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How does Plato discuss eros?

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Only brief + in passing
Seems reluctant to engage w the concept
Can cause political corruption/influence

37
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What should citizens of Plato’s ideal state not be allowed?

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Not allowed to indulge in sexual pleasure bc it’s a form of madness/insanity + lack of discipline
Permitted only for procreation

38
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Who does Plato permit non-procreative eros for?

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Older couples past fertility
Possibly bc they’re less likely to be corrupted by eros

39
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Why did Plato want to eliminate familial relationships?

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Bc it can lead to favouritism; ppl feel a connection to their own offspring + will be likely to try and help them succeed just bc they’re related (NEPOTISM)

40
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Why did Plato want parenthood to be anonymous?

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People view any children of the right age to be their biological child + children treat any adult of a certain age to be their parents as if they were

41
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What was the example of red in terms of the Forms?

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Anything red is red bc it participates in the Form of Red

42
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What makes philosophers different to lovers of sights + sounds?

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Philosophers apprehend (catch) Forms

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