Intro to Philosophy on Friday covered Socrates and Plato. We discussed the Euthyphro - and that led to the quiz question: Jesus comes to your home, you know it is Him and He is God. He asks you to sell all you have, give the money to the poor, and follow Him. Do you go with him? Or argue? Or ask questions? Moving on to the Apology we concluded Socrates was guilty of not being pious and leading the children of the wealthy to be critical of those in power. In the Meno Virtue cannot be taught but instead seems to be inherent in those that have it from birth. So Plato heavily comes in on the side of nature and not nurture. We watched one version of the Allegory of the Cave and discussed the Republic. I used a triangle to represent the psychology: lower class, spirited class, and wisdom class. You should also see the divided line in the Republic that shows the division of the types of knowledge that we discussed. The bit from the movie Amadeus went well with this piece. There is clearly good, better, best, in all of the arts. We also briefly went over the politics that brought about Plato's conception of a Just State - a Republic - and I asked the second question: Do you think Democracy is a good form of government?