Plato - Republic 5-10

CW: Incest, Infanticide, and Misogyny as philosophical ideas and historical realities

Professor Kozlowski tackles the rest of the Republic by ranging over the three excerpts in the Cohen textbook and several excluded passages. On the docket:

1. Equality for women (yay!)
2. Open marriages (yay!?)
3. Communal child-rearing (wut?)
4. Eugenics (boo!)
5. The Allegory of the Cave (yay!)
6. How governments fall apart (Aristotle to follow)
7. The Myth of Er (w00t)

Professor Kozlowski apologizes in advance for how much brutally heinous s#!t will be discussed in these lectures. Especially when we get to Fascism and Social Darwinism.

You can find the full text of Plato's Republic for free on Project Gutenberg; this lecture uses Lane Cooper's translation in Princeton Readings in Political Thought ed. Mitchell Cohen.

If you're interested in Professor Kozlowski's other online projects, check out his website: ⁠professorkozlowski.wordpress.com