{"id":1491,"date":"2011-11-22T15:20:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2011-11-29T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T19:33:09","slug":"six-quotes-fried-on-plato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/11\/22\/six-quotes-fried-on-plato\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Quotes: Fried on Plato"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. “Socrates is proposing radical censorship so the young receive the right message from a very young age.”<\/li>\n
  2. “The best soul will be ruled by reason or calculation. Justice is when each part of the soul — calculating, spiritedness, and desire — is minding its own business.”<\/li>\n
  3. “Can you know about politics in the same way a brain surgeon knows about the brain or a pilot knows about a plane?”<\/li>\n
  4. “If you don’t know what good is, you don’t know what justice is used for.”<\/li>\n
  5. “When you wake up in the morning you trust the floor to support your weight, you trust your toothbrush to clean your teeth; and you trust when you go to class, your teachers will have something to teach you.”<\/li>\n
  6. “Sophists are not interested in the truth, but rather in the manipulation of the truth. Today, sophists are what you would call lawyers, doctors, politicians, or lobbyists.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As recorded by Core office employee Winona Hudak during Prof. Greg Fried’s<\/a> discussion of <\/em>The Republic, at the November 22th CC101 lecture.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    “Socrates is proposing radical censorship so the young receive the right message from a very young age.” “The best soul will be ruled by reason or calculation. Justice is when each part of the soul — calculating, spiritedness, and desire — is minding its own business.” “Can you know about politics in the same way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3860,4854,4151],"tags":[3689,4218,5723,6683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}