Very nice coverage of an important chapter in one of the greatest books of all time.
A short comment on a question you raise, "How do you avoid ending up as a feverish city? The dilemma is that once one city starts to play this game, even if you’re a nice self-sufficient city, another feverish city will just come along and take you over? Therefore, is injustice inevitable?"
The answer that Socrates gave is that one must live minimally and simply, without a lot of wealth. For that reason, one is not a target for aggressive feverish cities. Citizens of this type of city will be naturally tough and so, not easy to defeat anyway. Wealth oriented cities wouldn't waste their time conquering such insignificant places. And if they were led by philosopher Kings to boot, they wouldn't fear death anyway.
Thank you very much this awesome! It's something I love about Platonism and socrates that it dovetail nicely with a natural ascetisism and discipline - totally the contrary of our current cultures unfortunately. Being from Dublin it's definitely a feverish city!
Very nice coverage of an important chapter in one of the greatest books of all time.
A short comment on a question you raise, "How do you avoid ending up as a feverish city? The dilemma is that once one city starts to play this game, even if you’re a nice self-sufficient city, another feverish city will just come along and take you over? Therefore, is injustice inevitable?"
The answer that Socrates gave is that one must live minimally and simply, without a lot of wealth. For that reason, one is not a target for aggressive feverish cities. Citizens of this type of city will be naturally tough and so, not easy to defeat anyway. Wealth oriented cities wouldn't waste their time conquering such insignificant places. And if they were led by philosopher Kings to boot, they wouldn't fear death anyway.
Thank you very much this awesome! It's something I love about Platonism and socrates that it dovetail nicely with a natural ascetisism and discipline - totally the contrary of our current cultures unfortunately. Being from Dublin it's definitely a feverish city!