Some more notes on the Republic
1. Book I: Review the Thrasymachus dialogue
2. Book II: Glaucon's challenge: why be just? - appearance
and reality of justice; justice in itself (the question: why be moral?)
a. 368d; eyesight, the soul and the city; Digress on
psyche; discuss this as a problem that lasts . . .
b. Building the city; the discussion of the 1st city up to 372e.
c. The next city and the need for guardians; discuss parallel
of varnas . . .
d. education of the guardians (who/what will guard the guardians?)
3. Book III The rations of the guardians
4. Book IV: the virtues of the different kinds of people
in the city . . .; parts of the soul - the argument for
Book V: Discuss the issue of coeducation in the Republic; the
enduring presence of the arguments
Book VI: The line
Book VII: The Cave (Extra credit: write an essay on the
film The Matrix, considering it as (among other things)) a retelling
of Plato's myth of the cave.)
Book IX: Eyesight again; Comparing the letters
M. Kagan
Le Moyne College
2/16/01
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