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Socratic Method - form of philosophical inquiry in which the questioner explores the implications of others' positions, to stimulate rational thinking and illuminate ideas
Major questions in philosophy – 1. What can I know?
2. What ought I to do?
3. What may I hope?
4. What is man?
Inadequate answers – 1. Benefits the friends and harms enemies: Polemarchus
2. Advantage of the stronger: Thrasymachus
3. What the law prescribes: Glaucon
Who should rule the city – Philosophers. Intelligence is something more divine than other virtues that belong to the soul.
Three parts of soul – 1. Wisdom
2. Courage
3. Appetite, Desire
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Experience - Inanimate knowledge of things in an immediate and concrete way, something which gives us information only about the particular thing
Art - higher mode of knowledge that enables one to know what means to use in order to obtain the desired results
Causes – Final causes, Formal causes,
Best kind of knowledge – Sophia: Wisdom
Covenant – Mutual agreement that requires Common Power to make it constant and lasting
Natural Right – Everyone is governed by his own reason
Natural Laws – 1. Seek peace and follow it
2. By all means we can defend ourselves ...