Plato - Book 8
The person who values freedom
Who is 'the democratic person'?
Plato thinks that these people need to be banished from the ideal city because they promote lies and immorality
Who are the poets?
The disposition that love can overcome or heal
What is cynicism (and/or fear)?
The act of knowing that you do not know
What is wisdom?
The author who said that a university education is valuable because it helps you be less arrogant in your beliefs
Who is David Foster Wallace?
A government that values honor and valor
What is a timocracy?
The thing that can destroy the soul
bell hooks says that the patriarchy harms men by...
What is forcing them to repress their pain?
What did Leontius desire to look at closely (that society thinks he shouldn't)
What are corpses?
Ivan Ilyich did most things in his life out of...
What is 'a sense of duty'? (not to be confused with moral duty, though!!)
The person who values and acts on their desires
Who is 'the tyrant'?
The tyrant is a slave to this thing
What are their desires (and/or appetites)?
de Botton's paradox of love
What is the phenomenon where we do not understand how the beloved could love us since we place them on a pedestal?
The person who founded the Academy and led to the academic skeptic movement
The charges against Socrates in the Apology
What are 'corrupting the youth' and 'impiety'?
The people who rule in an oligarchy
Who are the rich?
The myth at the end of the Republic
What is the story of Er's trip to the afterlife?
bell hooks claims that in cultures of domination, the fear of death is turned into...
What is 'the fear of life and living'?
The story that Glaucon tells to show that justice is often done not for its own sake but for its rewards
What is the Ring of Gyges?
These three men gave definitions of justice in Book 1
Who are Cephalus, Polemarchus, and Thrasymachus
The type of person who Plato claims values 'the Good'
Who is 'the aristocratic person'?
This pleasure is the best and most long-lasting
What is knowledge?
de Botton thinks that we often confuse intimacy with...
What is 'ownership and license'?
The person who thought that our senses are too fallible to afford us actual knowledge, and therefore, we should never believe anything
Cicero
The Piraeus at the beginning of Book 1 is meant to represent this
What is anarchy?