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.