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What is Plato’s famous Dialogue?
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The Republic –it asks 2 central questions: what is the meaning of Justice and What is
the nature of a just society?
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What is justice?
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We
think of justice as criminal cases and problems of punishment. This is Retributive Justice.
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What is Plato’s philosophy in The Republic?
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Book
VI says everyone has his or her “place” and justice means that they act
accordingly.
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What is then the highest form?
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For
Plato, it is the idea or form of Goodness.
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Who is Thrasymachus?
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A
Sophist who asks for money for his definition.
His definition offered: “the Just is nothing else than the advantage for
the stronger.”
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Book IV of The Republic says…
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Being
ideal gives us four great virtues: Wisdom, Courage, Discipline, and Justice.
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What, then, is Goodness? Is it Knowledge of the
Good?
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It
is not knowledge of the Good. It is a circular
answer.
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Is Goodness Pleasure?
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No,
it is not. Some pleasures are bad and
the good can never be bad.
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What is the virtue of Reason?
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Virtue
is righteousness, Wisdom or Justice.
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What was Aristotle?
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If Plato was an
Idealist, Aristotle was a realist. If
Plato’s reality was understood mathematically, Aristotle understood it
Biologically.
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What is the starting point of Reasoning?
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For
Aristotle, the starting point of Reasoning would be the categories.
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What did Aristotle invent?
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Aristotle
invented formal logic.
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What was the subject of categories for Aristotle?
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Substance
–it is a composite of form and matter.
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What are Primary Substances?
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Primary
substances are the individuals of which reality consists of those which
timelessly are, and those which by
natural processes have come to be
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What is Ethics?
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The
word Ethics is derived from the Greek ethos, which means ‘habit,’ ‘custom,’ in
the singular and ‘character’ in the Plural.
(the good life)
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