Plato on the Limits of Human Life by Brill Sara;

Author:Brill, Sara;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indiana University Press

Judgment of Lives

Socrates's account of the tyrant culminates in three judgments about the tyrant's happiness, during the course of which Glaucon concludes that the life of the tyrant is the least desirable of lives (576d–588a). These judgments, and indeed the account of the tyrant and the review of regimes preceding it, rely upon a particular perspective that Socrates characterizes as viewing the city and the soul “as a whole” (576d–e, 579e). The holistic view of city and soul that Socrates and Glaucon have gained is a function not of their remove from what they are observing, but of their immersion in it; they view the tyrannical city by “creeping down []32 into every corner and looking” (576d–e). The judgment of the tyrannical soul is reserved for one who “is able with his thought to creep into [] a man's disposition and see through it—a man who is not like a child looking from outside and overwhelmed by the tyrannic pomp set up as a façade for those outside, but who rather sees through it adequately” (577a). Socrates continues:

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