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- - - - in athens: there is a religion of athenian people. not the religion of foreign people. socrates can be accused of capital crime: rejecting religion of athens and professing new theology and "corrupting" athens
        
        there are different types of political society. a distinguishing feature of political society: democratic, aristocratic, tyrannical
        
        rule by one: monarchy/tyranny, rule by few: aristocracy/oligarchy, rule by many: democracy/mob-rule
        
        theocracy(mandated religion) vs. disestablishment anti-theocratic society(religion is private non political matter for individuals to decide.
- - - - friend (which you help) or enemy (you harm)
        
        have to have knowledge of who friends are and enemies are. problem of valididity
      - (socrates) art -> techne
        art is a skill (know-how)
        paradigm of art: medicine
        someone with technical skill knows how to do do something, has knowledge that is morally neutral. a person knows how to heal knows how to cause damage. techne is morally neutral
        
        if doing justice is like practicing medicine, you know how to help friends and harm enemies
        
        does that knowlegde become useless under conditions of peace?
        
        have to have knowledge of who friends are and enemies are
      - just in war
- - - - prudence knowing what is in one's own best interest and knowing what means to adopt and what actions to take to achieve or maintain that good. relative but objective