Blog #6

1. I agree with Socrates when he says that wisdom begins with wonder. To be able to be wise you have to be wanting to learn. Wondering about how something works or why something happen is the first step to becoming wise.
2. Thrasymachus claimed that justice was whatever the strongest and most pwerful decided to be right. Plato disagreed with this statement. Plato says that most of the stime what the strongest and most powerful do is wrong. They only think about themselves. Plato thinks that there are four great virtues: courage wisdom, temperance, and justice.
3. Plato's ideal republics was to have the strongest and most intelligent rule and have people who are not intelligent be the lower class. The positive was that it started out well where intelligent people were at the the top, but the negative was that no one could move up in their position, meaning even if a non intelligent person had an intelligent son, he could not move up in the ranks.
4. My ideal of an ideal state is one like the U.S. (democracy) but without corruption and where everyone get equal rights and everyone has equal educational and job opportunities.
5. The Allegory of the Cave says that we can not get knowledge until we realize that what we see may not be true. This means that we can not just look at something on the surface but we have to see on the inside as well.

Blog #5

1. I would rather live in Sparta if I was a women because in Athens women were treated as items, kind of like slaves. The only job they had was to do domestic arts. In Sparta, girls were educated and treated more equal to men than in Athens. They were at least free to move around while in Athens they belonged to their husbands.
2. I would rather be a slave in Athens because at least some slaves could get important roles like a policeman.
3. I would much rather live in Athens if I were a boy because I would not need to serve in the army till I am 60.
4. I would rather live in Athens because once again I would not have to serve in the army till I am 60 and only work in the army.
5. Once again I would rather live in Athens if I were rich because I would not have to serve in the army. Not only that , but in Sparta rich, was basically anyone who was free and served in the army.
6. I would definitely rather live in Athens because in Sparta everything is about war and from a young age you only learn to fight. In Athens you have a choice and do not have to serve in the army for over 50 years.