Summary & questions for the middle of Plato's Republic Book 1, from 336b to 348c
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0:00 Thrasymachus' Unique Character & Behavior
1:30 Method of Exposing Contradictions
2:15 First Contradiction of Thrasymachus
2:43 Every Craft Seeks the Advantage of its Object
3:21 Thrasymachus' Speech: Justice as Sheepherding
4:26 Why Craftsmen are Paid
4:57 Why Do Good Rulers Rule?
6:01 Is the Unjust Life Better than the Just Life?
Reading Question 1: Make a list of activites/crafts/skills in your own life. Are they directed at benefiting the thing they act on, or benefiting the person using the skill?
Reading Question 2: In our society today, is it true that the people who should have power are the people who don't want power? Why or why not?
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Music: Freedom in Isolation, by Darren Curtis
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