Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET January 2017 Political Science
Match the List I (Plato's Dialogues) with List II (Main Themes) and select the correct answer from the codes given below.
List I
- I. Symposium
- II. Philebus
- III. Timaeus
- IV. Republic
List II
- a. The sphere of Physics
- b. The sphere of Politics
- c. Application of the theory of ideas to the sphere of ethics
- d. The metaphysics of love
AI-d, II-c, III-a, IV-b ✓ Correct
BI-a, II-b, III-c, IV-d
CI-c, II-a, III-b, IV-d
DI-b, II-a, III-d, IV-c
Correct answer: (A) I-d, II-c, III-a, IV-b — Correct matching: Symposium with the metaphysics of love, Philebus with ethics, Timaeus with physics, and Republic with politics, so the answer is I-d, II-c, III-a, IV-b.
Explanation
★Correct matching: Symposium with the metaphysics of love, Philebus with ethics, Timaeus with physics, and Republic with politics, so the answer is I-d, II-c, III-a, IV-b.
★The Symposium is a series of speeches at a banquet ascending from physical love to the love of the Form of Beauty itself.
★The Philebus debates whether pleasure or wisdom is the good, applying the Theory of Ideas to ethics.
★The Timaeus is Plato's cosmology, describing how the Demiurge fashions the physical universe on the model of the Forms.
★The Republic is his great work of political philosophy, building the just city and the rule of the philosopher-king.
★The companion dialogues are the Apology on Socrates' defence, the Crito on political obligation, the Phaedo on the soul's immortality, and the Laws on the second-best state.
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