Philosophy is about “love”–it is an erotic enterprise which requires energy to pursue the most difficult questions such as inquiring into the nature of justice.

For Socrates, being just or being moral enables a person to take fuller possession of his or her own human nature.

Forms can deteriorate with time.

For Socrates, the individual’s right to express himself or herself freely is more important than the health of the city as a whole.

In the original city of minimal needs there is no perfume or cakes but there are many artists.

Socrates suggests that a lottery be fabricated so that people think that chance is at work in the determination of their sexual partners.

We are egalitarians, believing that all human beings are by nature equal (which puts us at odds with Plato).

Thrasymachus believes that it is just to obey laws and agrees with Socrates that sometimes rulers make mistakes.

According to Socrates, the city has the same structure as the soul (but is easier to see because it is bigger than the soul.

If one rejects universals, then one is left with particulars.