The Republic of Plato

Kalle Burroughs Philosophy
3/5/03

Class


In our class discussion we talked about the education by beauty shape, the soul that it reflects the order of the world. There really isn’t a definition of what beauty truly is. In class we said it was a consummation of harmony and that beauty is a form and real. But what do we mean in real. Do we mean psychically real or symbolically real? People have different aspects of beauty and even if we are to be educated in what beauty is, how do the educators know what beauty is? Plato doesn’t believe in columns as luxurious. In Greece didn’t they believe that columns were symbolically power? People who were nobleman or had a higher position of power had columns in the house to signify there placement in society.

Plato structures a society that is of higher hierarchy but it seems to me that he...