Plato Songtexte
Songtexte
- ...when they arrived they had to go immediately before Lachesis
- A model of justice and a model of injustice
- Socrates: Which of these people are to rule, and which to be ruled?
- The four regimes of rule: The Cretan or Spartan (honor-loving - timocracy), oligarchy, democracy, tryanny
- Socrates: Practice justice with wisdom
- Glaucon Puts the Argument for Injustice
- Justice
- The full guardians and the auxiliaries, the defenders of the rulers' beliefs
- The origin of war and the need for guardians - soldiers
- Socrates: What prompts the change from champion to tyrant?
- The metaphor of the community in the cave
- Timocracy or timarchy
- Here are three men...
- The faculty of sight
- Socrates: The origin of a city lies... In that we are not, any of us, self-sufficient
- With pleasure, Cephalus
- Socrates continues the discussion
- Democracy
- The agreed characteristics of the city
- The ruler of what can be understood and the ruler of what can be seen
- Socrates: Do you know what sort of thing these pleasures and pains are then
- This choice of lives amoung the various souls...
- Self-discipline
- The four elements of a city which is wholly good: wisdom, courage, self-discipline and justice
- Courage
- Socrates: It's neither hear nor there, Polemarchus, I said
- The verdict: The best... is the one who is most kingly, the one who is king over himself
- What would you say is the greatest benefit you have derived from your possession of great wealth?
- Socrates: ...the most important branch of study is the form or character of the good
- A new journey to the light - and eight whorls
- The situation of children
- The rational and the spirited
- Socrates: In which case, whre exactly are justice and injustice to be forund in it.
- ...That leaves us with the task of describing... tryanny
- All right then. When people are unwell... - the just man
- Adeimantus raises the question of the role of women in society
- Socrates Defends Justice
- Returning to every day life after the contemplation of the divine
- The role of the classes in society - the skilled worker or businessman; the warriers; the guardian/rulers
- On campaign with the children
- The training of the rulers
- The Phonenician story and the training of the auxiliaries
- Socrates: This is what you must take me to mean by the child of the good
- I imagine the next regime... Oligarchy
- Polemarchus 'Inherits the Discussion' on the Definition of Justice
- A second proof - the three parts of the soul: pleasure, desire, rule
- I went down to piraeus yesterday with Glaucon
- Glaucon: The Legend of Gyges the Lydian
- Wisdom
- Thrasymachus Takes Control of the Argurment
- Glaucon: Explain, please, why pleasure is a shadow-picture
- Socrates: There is no end to suffering... unless either philosophers become kings... or kings... become philosophers
- The treatment of the enemy - enslavement?
- In which case, Glaucon, you should bear in mind
- Thrasymachus: Some cities are tyrannies, some are democracies and others aristocracies
- Glaucon: Yes, he said. It is a good idea to find that out
- Socrates: A great prize is at state, Glaucon...for being good rather than bad
- Choice: the middle way
- Socrates: the greatest good...and the greatest evil... in the organisation of our city
- The tale of Er, the son of Armenius
- Socrates: Which is more profitable: just actions, good behaviour... or unjust actions and be unjust
