Details for Part 2, Twilight Term, 2022
Class times for Part 2: 6.30 to 8 pm Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 November and 7 December 2022
Venue for Part 2: Multi-Purpose Room 2, Kathleen Syme Centre, 251 Faraday St, Carlton (+online with zoom)
Zoom link (the same for Part 1 & 2)| Dial-in for internet disruption: 03 7018 2005 | Meeting ID: 857 0521 0823 | Passcode: 103505
Course outline for weekly readings and access to texts
Catch-up classes for Part 1 & 2
Week 1.1
Session 1.1 | What is justice? | page 327 to page 336a
Here are four terms introduced in the 1st session which will become important as we proceed.
Week 1.2
Session 1.2 | Justice as a social construct | 336b – 367e
Week 1.3
Session 1.3 | The ideal of social justice | 368a – 412a & Bk 10, 595 – 608b
Week 1.4
Session 1.4 | The Guardians of the Good and the tripartite soul | 412a – 449a
Week 1.5
Session 1.5 | Dissolving the family | 449a – 471c
Week 1.6
Session 1.6 | The devolution of polity towards tyranny | 543a (Bk 8) – 592b
Week 2.1
Session 2.1 | Why philosophers are not valued | 471 – 502c
Week 2.2
Session 2.2 | (The analogy of light and the Divided Line | 502c – 511e – deferred to wk 3)
Week 2.3
Session 2.3 | (Divided line &) Enlightenment in the Allegory of the Cave | 514 – 521c
Week 2.4
Session 2.4 | (Revision of Line & Cave +) The philosophical education | 521c – 541b
Week 2.5
Session 2.5 | Catch-up on the philosophical education
Week 2.6
Session 2.6 | The immortality of the soul and the myth of Er | 608c – 621d
