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Rachel Barney (U Toronto), “The Ethics and Politics of Plato’s Noble Lie”
3:30 pm
Rachel Barney (U Toronto), “The Ethics and Politics of Plato’s Noble Lie”
@ Zoom, possibly in person
Mar 4 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Abstract. The Noble Lie proposed by Plato for the Just City in Republic III has been much misunderstood. Its agenda is twofold: to get the citizens of the City to see their society as a natural entity, with themselves as all ‘family’ and akin; and to get the Guardians in particular to make class mobility, on which the justice of the City depends, a top priority. Since the second is taken to depend on the[...]
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