PHI 1301 Lecture 12
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Corruption of Youth
- recruited to work on other people's projects
- to support other people's agendas
- lady wisdom goes "uncourted"
- the only person left is the unappealing "bald-headed tinker"
Story of Ship Captain
- the only person to be the ship's captain goes unnoticed
- labeled a "stargazer and babbler"
- explains why philosophers are fit to rule city but are often labeled useless
Other Analogies Galore
| Sun | Divided Line | Cave | Ordered Learning | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| what is immaterial, intelligible, unchanging, eternal | The Good radiates Truth, which illuminates what is intelligible so we can understand them | Powers of the Soul | Reality | Real things illuminated by the sun, which is too bright to see directly | philosophy (dialectics) |
| understanding (νόησις) | the forms
| ||||
| thought (διάνοια) | "mathematicals" [analogies 1] | reflections of things | arithmetic geometry astronomy harmonics | ||
| what is material, sensible, changing, temporal | the sun radiates light, which illuminates things so we can see them | trust (πίστις) |
things | artifacts | gymnastics |
| imagination (εἰκασία) | images | shadows and echoes | music | ||
- ↑ mathematicals are abstract structures that are underlying the unity and "togetherness" of things.
For Next Time
- Read through the rest of Book 7
- pay attention to geometry and astronomy