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Human nature midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Elenchus | -examination of conventionally recognized terms such as justice, beauty, friendship, love, courage -search for universal meaning, independent of time and place |
| Application of elenchus | Through conversation, question, and answer |
| Socratic ignorance | -Idea of acknowledging what you don’t know -admitting ignorance -challenging false knowledge -valuing of clearing false ideas |
| Gluacons three classes of goods | I. A good we desire not because of its results, but for its own sake II. For its own sake and their results III. Extrinsic value alone |
| Myth of Gyges | -shepherd who finds magic ring that makes him invisible. Using this, he performs injustice -prompts the question of whether anyone would choose to be just if they could act unjustly with imputinity |
| Philosophical argument of myth of gyges | -if both just and unjust person had the ring, they would both act unjustly because there would be no fear of getting caught -Socrates goal is to show that justice is good in itself, regardless of consequences or reputation |
| Origin of society | -society exists because human lack self efficiency -human need to live in community -labor |
| Socrates healthy city | -satisfying basic human needs -no delicacies -is it enough to just satisfy human need |
| Socrates luxurious city | -feverish -nature of desire leads to more desire -much larger |
| Why are guardians needed | -human desire -population boom |
| What does guardians education look like | -to socialize them into more gentle and moral person -the body, gymnastics/wrestling -the soul -the arts |
| Teleology | -Telos: end state -logos: study of |
| Three ways to define end | -complete eg end of movie -means or end: use, value, purpose -goal: what something strives for, development ,end, activity |
| What is practical ethics | -natural philosophy -proto physics -proto biology -classifying nature -political philosophy -philosophy of language -knowing the good and doing the good, activity |
| Incidental friends | -based on utility or use -transactional and favor -friends of pleasure -based on extrinsic goods, easily dissolves |
| Conditions that make friendship possible | -similarity, people are often drawn to others who share similar traits, values, beliefs, and interest -complementarity: some relationships strive of difference, each person’s qualities fulfill other needs -proximity: physical closeness |
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