I chose this quote because I agree that the ideas and lessons you learn are from curiosity or making mistakes. When you wonder about something, you begin to ask questions. When those questions are answered, you learn something new and that's what most people think of as wisdom. I'm not really sure all wisdom beings with wondering or curiosity, but I'm pretty sure Socrates and I are on the same page with this quote.
2. To Plato, justice is whatever the best thing for each person is. We all have different opinions and we all know what's best for ourselves, so we can tell what the justice in our lives would be. I think that's the definition of justice to Plato is.
3. I don't think that it's good that people that are not as smart or brave as others should be lowered in rank because of their inability to do something as well as someone else. If people that weren't as smart got jobs that very smart or very brave people got, they would be able to grow in strength and ability to do work. Like I said before, you can learn new things by doing stuff you didn't think you could do, or just by making mistakes. The people that aren't smart enough to get the good jobs, according to Plato's ideal republic, could possibly be really successful and help the world if they had the chance.
4. An ideal republic or state for me would be that all people are somewhat equal. It seems like in San Francisco, because of all the diversity we have, equality prevails in many situations. Even though it also seems like there are more white people and rich people in private school, at least most San Franciscans have gotten a good education and can live to be successful people. Also, an ideal republic would be a place where religion, race, sexuality, etc doesn't matter because technically, we're all just people living on Earth and we shouldn't be fighting with other people like the world is now.
5. I agree that the visual universe is reality because what we see and know is there is the truth. Even though with many situations, people can come off looking nice and sweet but really turn out evil, at least you know that people are there. If the world was based on the intelligible, we would most likely believe anything that came out of any one's mouth. I don't think that the visual universe is standing in the way of knowledge, because seeing or visualizing something can help us learn. If people just stopped visualizing, stopped learning for themselves, and started listening to what other people say and believing those people, the world would easily fall apart. We need our own opinions, and many of those opinions come from learning from visual objects.
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