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  • Platos political thought: the beginning of a divisin

    between theorein and praxis in political endeavor.

    Knowledge as virtue

  • different philosophical Streams

    Idealism- PlatoRealism- AristotleEmpirism- Hume, Locke Rationalism- Kant

  • The world as A copy

  • Allegory of the caveMake a drawing of the described cave in Platos text

    What does the following items symbolized:

    The cave

    The chains

    The shadows

    The men passing along

    The sight capacity

    The light

    The outside world

    The liberated prisoner

    The sun

  • who is the liberated prisoner?

    I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner.What was the other prisoners reaction when he returns to the cave?

  • the power of knowledge

    Which is the conversin that Plato is telling about?

    What should be the main virtue for Plato?

    How is this related to the administration of the State?

    Then, I said, the business of us who are the founders of the State will be to compel the best minds to attain that knowledge which we have already shown to be the greatest of allthey must continue to ascend until they arrive at the good; but when they have ascended and seen enough we must not allow them to do as they do now.

  • Personal happiness

    You have again forgotten, my friend, I said, the intention of the legislator, who did not aim at making any one class in the State happy above the rest; the happiness was to be in the whole State, and he held the citizens together by persuasion and necessity, making them benefactors of the State, and therefore benefactors of one another; to this end he created them, not to please themselves, but to be his instruments in binding up the State.

  • A whole regime based on knowledge

    When you have acquired the habit, you will see ten thousand times better than the inhabitants of the den, and you will know what the several images are, and what they represent, because you have seen the beautiful and just and good in their truth

  • Which is the ladder of knowledge

    scienceunderstandingbelief perception

  • The main purpose of the state

    Well, I said, and you would agree (would you not?) that what has been said about the State and the government is not a mere dream, and although difficult not impossible, but only possible in the way which has been supposed; that is to say, when the true philosopher kings are born in a State.

    How will they proceed? They will begin by sending out into the country all the inhabitants of the city who are more than ten years old, and will take possession of their children, who will be unaffected by the habits of their parents; these they will train in their own habits and laws, I mean in the laws which we have given them.

  • Totalitarism

    A golden parent will sometimes have a silver son, or a silver parent a golden son. And God proclaims as a first principle to the rulers, and above all else, that there is nothing which they should so anxiously guard, or of which they are to be such good guardians, as of the purity of the race.

  • Chariots allegory

    The importance of nousimmortalityself-movent and telosFor the body which is moved from without is soulless; but that which is movedfrom within has a soul, for such is the nature of the soul.

  • The humans

  • semantic network

    Write in a piece of paper what would be the steps a soul most seek to nourish from knowledge, fall and go back.

  • Knowledge for the souls

    The divine intelligence, being nurtured upon mind and pure knowledge, and the intelligence of every soul which is capable of receiving the food proper to it, rejoices at beholding reality, and once more gazing upon truth, is replenished and made glad, until the revolution of the worlds brings her round again to the same place.

  • For a man must have intelligence of universals, and be able to proceed from the many particulars of sense to one conception of reason;this is the recollection of those things which our soul once saw while following Godwhen regardless of that which we now call being she raised her head up towards the true being

  • For a man must have intelligence of universals, and be able to proceed from the many particulars of sense to one conception of reason;this is the recollection of those things which our soul once saw while following Godwhen regardless of that which we now call being she raised her head up towards the true being

  • Repercusiones del Mito del auriga

    Justice

  • Common properties

    that the guardians were not to have houses or lands or any other property; their pay was to be their food, which they were to receive from the other citizens, and they were to have no private expenses; for we intended them to preserve their true character of guardians.

  • MariageHad we not better appoint certain festivals at which we will bring together the brides and bridegrooms, () num ber of weddings is a matter which must be left to the discretion of the rulers, whose aim will be to preserve the average of population? There are many other things which they will have to consider, such as the effects of wars and diseases and any similar agencies, in order as far as this is possible to prevent the State from becoming either too large or too small.Certainly, he replied.We shall have to invent some ingenious kind of lots which the less worthy may draw on each occasion of our bringing them together, and then they will accuse their own ill-luck and not the rulers.To be sure, he said.And I think that our braver and better youth, besides their other honours and rewards, might have greater facilities of intercourse with women given them; their bravery will be a reason, and such fathers ought to have as many sons as possible.

  • Men and women

    You agree then, I said, that men and women are to have a common way of life such as we have describedcommon education, common children; and they are to watch over the citizens in common whether abiding in the city or going out to war; they are to keep watch together, and to hunt together like dogs; and always and in all things, as far as they are able, women are to share with the men? And in so doing they will do what is best, and will not violate, but preserve the natural relation of the sexes.

  • Yes, I said, Glaucon, and of our governesses too; for you must not suppose that what I have been saying applies to men only and not to women as far as their natures can go.

    Fragmento de: Plato. The Republic. iBooks.

  • The power of love

  • Body, soul and reincarnation

    The reason why the souls exhibit this exceeding eagerness to behold the plain of truth is that pasturage is found there, which is suited to the highest part of the soul; and the wing on which the soul soars is nourished with this

    Knowledge as remembrance

    Anamnesis

    Metempsychosis

  • Sight, beauty and knowledge

  • Gods and loveThe followers of Zeus desire that their beloved should have a soul like him; and therefore they seek out some one of a philosophical and imperial nature, and when they have found him and loved him, they do all they can to confirm such a nature in him, and if they have no experience of such a disposition hitherto, they learn of any one who can teach them, and themselves follow in the same way. And they have the less difficulty in finding the nature of their own god in themselves, because they have been compelled to gaze intensely on him; their recollection clings to him, and they become possessed of him, and receive from him their character and disposition, so far as man can participate in God

  • Love as impulse

    The symposium or dinner partyPhaedrus- love as virtuePausanias- different types of erosEryximachus- nature, medicineAristophanes- spheresSocrates- Diotima

  • Love is the love of beauty

    Wants and have notWhy is love between mortal and immortal?Poros and Peniainheritance

  • When a man loves the beautiful, what does he desire?'

    love of the everlasting possession of the goodWrite the ascendant path of love

  • He who from these ascending under the influence of true love, begins to perceive that beauty, is not far from the end. And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these as steps only, and from one

  • He who from these ascending under the influence of true love, begins to perceive that beauty, is not far from the end. And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these as steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair practices, and from fairpractices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

  • What can Plato say to us today?