Today's class was divided into two parts:
The first part (and I found most interesting) has dealt with discrimination, and more specifically on racial discrimination. One issue that had little to do with what we seen so far, but has been a good way to start a Monday at first (so we are not asleep and that)
also has not been treated in a theoretical way, but has been through a video, which was quite entertaining and interesting as it was played by some children who were influenced by his teacher, who wanted them to know firsthand what it was discrimination and marginalization, simply by the fact have a different skin color.
And finally, The second part of the class has been speaking out, more boring, so I am left with less stuff in my head. We try to see as the hounds had some influence in the Republic conceived by Plato. In short, consisted of a text on Socrates and the division of social classes that made Plato more detail, the guardians and rulers, were not entitled to the family, or the possession of property. Plato said, after exposure myth of metals, which should be guardians and rulers tell that to possess the soul of silver and gold, respectively, contact with objects made with these precious metals, they corrupted the noble and wise.
This is the text:
This is the text:
"Yes," I said. But let's move on, Glaucon, in a city happy people would not be seemly, nor allow the rulers to join promiscuously with each other or do any such thing.
"It would be nice," he said.
"Clearly, then, that after marriage we will establish all that is holy and beneficial as we can.
"Very true.
"But how will yield the greatest benefits? Tell me, Glaucon: see that your house is hunting dogs and many birds breed. Do you, by Zeus, do not pay attention to the mating and breeding of these animals?
- How? He asked.
"First of all, is not among them, although all are of good stock, some of which are or are better than others?
"There are.
- And you all pups Procures another or you worry that, if possible, born of the best?
-One of the best.
- So what? What the younger or older or those in the prime of life?
-Of those who are in their prime.
"And if not born in these conditions , degenerate much do you think your bird breeds and dogs?
"Yes, yes," he said.
- What "I went on what you think of horses and other animals? Will it happen something else?
"It would be absurd to happen," he said.
- my dear friend! "I cried. What we have great need of exalted rulers if the same is true also in the race of men!
"True. But what that mean?
-A as follows, "I said: our leaders should perhaps be used many times the lies and deceit for the sake of the governed.
"Very reasonable," he said.
"Well, with regard to marriage and the generation seems so reasonable that it will be not insignificant.
- Why?
"From what follows," I agreed, the need for better coexist with the best as often as possible and the worst of the worst in a few occasions, and if you want the herd is excellent as possible, we must raise the offspring of the former but not the latter. All this has to happen without anyone knowing, except the rulers, whether is also hoped that the herd of guardians to stay as far away as possible from all discord.
"Okay," he said.
-will therefore be necessary to establish which parties join the brides and grooms and make sacrifices, and our poets compose hymns appropriate to the marriage taking place. As the number of marriages, we'll leave to the discretion of the rulers, who, taking into account wars, epidemics and all similar accidents, will do their best to keep constant the number of citizens so that our city grows or must decrease to a minimum.
"Very well said.
-will therefore be necessary, I believe, invented an ingenious lottery system, so that citizens have inferior status to blame for the match before his bad luck that the rulers themselves.
"Yes," he said.
Plato , The Republic, Book V , Cap. VIII, 458e-460b
This was all that I remember.
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