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0:00 What is the Republic
0:51 What to keep in mind while you read
1:20 Conversation with Cephalus
2:26 Proposed definitions of justice
3:02 Justice is no different from other professions
3:33 Justice never hurts
3:54 Enter Thrasymachus
Reading Question 1: List the arguments and counterexamples that Socrates gives to attempts to define justice.
Reading Question 2: What are Socrates' arguments for concluding that (a) justice is different from other professions, and (b) justice never does harm?
5:28 Method for exposing contradictions
6:40 p.m. Each craft seeks the advantage of its object
7:16 Speech of Thrasymachus: Justice as shepherd
8:18 Why artisans are paid
9:53 Is the unrighteous life better than the righteous life?
Reading Question 3: Make a list of activities/crafts/skills in your own life. Are they intended to benefit the thing they are acting on, or the person using the skill?
Reading Question 4: In our society today, is it true that the people who *should* have power are the ones who don't *want* power? Why or why not?
10:28 Is injustice a virtue or a vice?
11:50 a.m. Experts seek excellence, not “surpassing”
12:37 Virtue helps one perform an activity well
13:18 Everything has a function and a virtue
Reading Question 5: How will two unjust people behave towards each other? What explains the ability of unjust people to cooperate on a common project? (352c)
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Music: Freedom in Isolation, by Darren Curtis
Pictures:
Justice, by converted to PNG format, edited and added by Geograv – www.ngw.nl, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid1673097
Map of Athens and Piraeus, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid909723
Money Bag, by Rogerborrell – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid49659536
Mouton, by Joran Bosscher – Personal work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid40697185
Villian, by JJ on English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid11297
Surgeon, by Sergeant. Dilia Ayala – https://www.dvidshub.net/image/165041, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid40757883
Musician, Anoushka Shankar, sitarist, By audrey_sel – Anoushka
Shankar 1, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid6245063
Doctor, by Staff Sergeant. Dilia Ayala – https://www.dvidshub.net/image/165041, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid40757883
Spy vs Spy, Cosplay at New York Comic Con 2012 (NYCC 2012). By Marnie Joyce from New York, USA – 2012 NYCC-21, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid52560463
Thumbnail image: Plato. By Unknown – https://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/ImageDetail.aspx?p_iBildID8939684, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid74323586
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