I think that I plump for the first option. What care for entails is not power over, but greater force than. This is a distinction that #Arendt makes. For her, power is the realm of law, of contract, of mutual obligation enforceable by law, though in a much broader sense than just that of a codified, top down legal system.

The private is the realm of force, which is to say violence, vulnerability and compulsion.

I cannot legitimately demand or expect respect or authority because I care for you. It gives me no rights over you, least of all the right of possession. It does make you vulnerable because you need me.

To bring it back to Plato, I think that one thing he is exploring in the #Apology, #Crito and #Phaedo, is the tension between the good, the power that governs and restrains force, that limits, if I am good, what I do to you because I can, and the law, the power that regulates the polis.

The unanswered question is where is justice? It feels like justice ought to aim at the good, but, it seems to belong to the law. The law does not aim at the good. It aims at regulating how we, me, you, him, her, them etc, live together.

If we let the good regulate how we live together, then we have to dominate others because, as #Socrates is always insisting the wise councillor is as rare as the expert horse trainer, or, in fact, no where to be found. We either submit to the rule of some non existent wise ruler or we do nothing.

Plato (13): Reïncarnatie en dualisme https://sargasso.nl/plato-13-reincarnatie-en-dualisme-2/ #Parmenides #Pythagoras #Filosofie #dualisme #Faidon #Phaedo #Plato

"“Well then,” continued #Socrates, “Is there an opposite thing to life, as is being asleep to being awake?”

“Of course,” answered Cebes.

“And what is that?” asked Socrates.

“Death,” answered Cebes.

“And so then, if these two are truly opposites, are they not born out of each other and between these two is there also the two births?” #dreams #soul #Plato #Phaedo #immortalityOfTheSoul #reincarnation #immortality https://bacchicstage.wordpress.com/plato/platos-phaedo-%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CF%89%CE%BD-or-about-the-soul/