Mod1Utopia

Worldview of Sparta:

  • Militarism

  • Survival

  • Domination

Plutarch: The Life of Lycurgus

Spartan Government:

“Utopian” reforms

  • Currency, land distribution, messes (everyone eats together) and “superfluous” art

  • Social hierarchy; role of women; sex

  • Militarism, Education, Marriage & Eugenics (control birth and reproduction)

  • Treatment of Helos (slaves)

Plato

Plato’s Life

  • student of Socrates (first moral philosopher)

  • trying to find the best political system

    • not a fan of Athen’s democracy since it killed Socrates (for perverting the youth of Athens), prefers Sparta

  • the Socratic Method (to ask question)

  • Voyage to Syracuse

  • the Academy

    • taught things like metaphysics, philosophy, etc.

Plato’s Utopian works

  • The Critias (Atlantis)

  • The Republic (Kallipolis)

  • The Laws (Magnesia)

Plato’s Worldview

  • Idealism vs Dualism

  • Doctrine of Forms

  • Art and representation (mimesis)

  • Allegory of the Cave

  • Tripartite soul

  • Deviant Constitutions (alternate)

    • Aristocracy (nobles)

    • Timarchy (soldiers)

    • Democracy (people)

    • Tyranny (one)

  • The Afterlife

    • Plato’s intention isn’t to make this life better, it is for us to reach the “light of truth” like Socrates did.

Atlantis: From Utopia to Dystopia

because of desire for wealth

Critias the Elder > Solon > Egyptus, Flood 9500, Atlantis/Athens

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Mod1Utopia

Worldview of Sparta:

  • Militarism
  • Survival
  • Domination

Plutarch: The Life of Lycurgus

Spartan Government:

“Utopian” reforms

  • Currency, land distribution, messes (everyone eats together) and “superfluous” art
  • Social hierarchy; role of women; sex
  • Militarism, Education, Marriage & Eugenics (control birth and reproduction)
  • Treatment of Helos (slaves)

Plato

Plato’s Life

  • student of Socrates (first moral philosopher)
  • trying to find the best political system
    • not a fan of Athen’s democracy since it killed Socrates (for perverting the youth of Athens), prefers Sparta
  • the Socratic Method (to ask question)
  • Voyage to Syracuse
  • the Academy
    • taught things like metaphysics, philosophy, etc.

Plato’s Utopian works

  • The Critias (Atlantis)
  • The Republic (Kallipolis)
  • The Laws (Magnesia)

Plato’s Worldview

  • Idealism vs Dualism
  • Doctrine of Forms
  • Art and representation (mimesis)
  • Allegory of the Cave
  • Tripartite soul
  • Deviant Constitutions (alternate)
    • Aristocracy (nobles)
    • Timarchy (soldiers)
    • Democracy (people)
    • Tyranny (one)
  • The Afterlife
    • Plato’s intention isn’t to make this life better, it is for us to reach the “light of truth” like Socrates did.

Atlantis: From Utopia to Dystopia

because of desire for wealth

Critias the Elder > Solon > Egyptus, Flood 9500, Atlantis/Athens