The Second Polis (Cont.)
The Virtues of the Second Polis
Virtues of the Soul
Guardians and the Common Family
The Third Polis
100
Another name for restrictions and limitations placed on education of the guardians.
Censorship
100
Having or showing high moral standards
Virtue
100
Socrates uses an analogy where the three parts of the soul mirror what?
The classes in society
100
Socrates was revolutionary in specific regards to this kind of equality.
Gender equality. Women can be seen as equal to men and therefore, become guardians.
100
An amendment to the second polis calls for this group to become ultimate rulers.
Philosophers
200
The most valuable asset to the guardians, and therefore must be protected above all else.
Education
200
The virtue where it is agreed by all that the inferior desires of the many are controlled by the wisdom and desires of the few.
Moderation
200
The kind of government where the best ruler rules.
Aristocracy
200
This man carries on most of the conversation with Socrates, coming to a conclusion that the city in debate would be fair and just.
Glaucon
200
The power to know and understand
Knowledge
300
For guardians, marriage and child raising must be done in this way.
In Common
300
The virtue where there is knowledge of what is appropriately feared and what is not.
Courage
300
Part of the soul that is concerned with satisfying hunger and thirst.
Appetitive
300
Children born of the best guardians shall be raised communally, while children born of the worst guardians are sentenced to this.
Death
300
The power to hold both true and false beliefs
Opinion
400
I question Socrates on how the guardians will be happy given their restrictions.
Adeimantus
400
Possessed only by a small minority, this virtue is described as the knowledge of how best to guard and care for the second polis.
Wisdom
400
Part of the soul concerned with emotion and passion.
Spirited
400
To prevent excessive promiscuity and incest, these must be established (with restrictions of course) to prevent such occurrences and ensure the best children are produced.
Marriage Rites
400
someone who loves the mere appearance or quality of things.
Lover of sights
500
Religious Laws are to be established based upon this council.
Delphic Apollo
500
The virtue where every citizen does what they are most suited to do and when members of a given class do what members of their class should do.
Justice
500
Part of the soul concerned with knowledge, wisdom, and philosophy.
Rational
500
When the guardians wage a Civil War, it must be fought so that this is possible.
Reconciliation
500
Unchanging and universal ideas developed by Plato that cannot be seen by the eyes, only grasped by the mind.
Forms