POLSCI 2O06 Lecture Notes - German Shepherd, Egalitarianism
11 Apr 2014
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Pol sci finish the republic by the 27th. Gluocon tells the audience a myth: even a just man will act unjustly, no one man can be just. Requests socrates to explain justice is good in itself (if ppl act just because they are scared the gods will punish them in the afterlife. Socrates answers by answering the question what is justice (on two levels, in the state and in the individual) its easier to see what justice is in a large object (state) Socrates proceeds with the construction of a just state before proceeding to justice in the individual. Begins his model by suggesting that when we watch a city coming to be we will also see justice and injustice come to be. Socrates claims that cities and societies come into being becuase people are not self- sufficient, they need things that they themselves cannot provide (food, housing, clothing)
