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plato
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| plato | socrates student, taught Aristotle, aristocles real name |
| socrates | abandoned education to see him |
| the academy | plato's school, named after greek hero |
| the republic | fiction book, MC socrates, form political theory book |
| what is real | question of plato, love and justice, tree analogy |
| allegory of the cave | book 7 of republic, ignorant people want to stay ignorant |
| true unchanging reality | experienced through ever-changing world |
| essentialism | every entity has essential attributes to identity |
| tripartite soul | appetitive, spirited, and rational, essence within |
| appetitive and spirited | desire, greed and emotion, courage |
| rational | logic, brain, truth, only in humans |
| free will and the soul | free to think for ourselves |
| vice and virtue | understand forms= always choose virtue |
| philosopher king | philosopher would be perfect ruler |
| criticism of free will | does rational soul have free will |