PSCI 2301 Lecture Notes - Common Good, Noble Lie, Glaucon
7 Jul 2014
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Book 1: setting the scene and chars, justice as trad & cs, paying debts, obeying, law, keeping promises, giving each his due, helping friends, harming enemies, rule of stronger (domination) Socrates says there is no rule of the stronger because humans are not docile and fight back. Tyrants end up hanging from a rope: common good. We have a sense of what is good and what is bad. For socrates, justice speaks to ethics, character, wisdom, etc: virtue for its own sake, essential to good life. You want justice and virtue if you are a human being. Means i have to hold myself back and not take what i possibly could. Greatest evil is everybody cheating and having social chaos, and the other good would be everybody doing the right thing all the time; justice is the middle ground. Glaucon says it"s a duty, not something i would choose for its own sake but something necessary.
