Plato
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What are the 4 categories of unsuitable poetry? | misrepresentation of god, moral weakness, representation, musical accompaniment |
| What are the three classes of Plato's ideal society? | Guardians, Auxiliaries, Third Class/ Workers |
| What analogy does Plato use to describe the classes of society? | Gold, Silver, Bronze |
| The qualities of a community are those of . . . | the component individuals |
| What is Plato's doctrine of the three parts of the soul? | reason, appetite, spirit |
| How do the three parts of the soul parallel the three classes? | Rulers (reason) and Auxiliaries (Spirit) against Third Class (appetite) |
| On the divided line, what categories belong to 'knowledge'? | Dialectic, mathematics |
| On the divided line, what categories belong to 'opinion'? | Belief, Illusion |
| To what category of the divided line do shadows and images correspond? | illusion |
| To what category of the divided line do physical things correspond? | belief |
| To what category of the divided line do forms correspond? | mathematics and dialectic |
| To what realm do the forms belong? | intelligible |
| To what realm do physical things and images belong? | visible |
| What are the stages of the allegory of the cave? | shadows on wall; turn around blinded by fire; dragged into sunlight and blinded; grow accustomed find it easier to look at shadows, then reflections of things, then things themselves, then heavenly bodies, then sun itself; descend back into gave to bring out rest of prisioners |
| What historical city is associated with Plato's description of Timarchy? | Sparta |
| What imperfect society first develops from the ideal society? | timarchy |
| What is a timarchy? | ruled military aristocracy |
| What imperfect society develops from timarchy? | oligarchy |
| What is an oligarchy? | rules by wealthy minority |
| what first appears in a oligarchic society? | drone class |
| What imperfect society develops from oligarchy? | democracy |
| What is a democracy? | equality of political opportunity and freedom of individual |
| What imperfect society develops from democracy? | tyranny |
| What is a tyranny | ruled by single authority, tyrant |
| What enables a tyranny to develop? | conflict of rich and poor in democracy |
| What is the timarchic character? | ambitious and energetic but prey to inner uncertainty and conflict |
| What is the oligarchic character? | sole object is to make money |
| What is the democratic character? | versatile but lacking in principle, desires necessary and unnecessary |
| What is the tyrannical character? | essentially criminal |
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