POLI 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Orthopraxy
5 Dec 2016
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The writer/speaker needs to stay appropriate in what he has to say to conform with the whole audience: flattery. The writer/speaker has pressure to please the audience which deforms his primary motive for the book/speech: justice vs politics. Talking about justice can sometimes go against the politics that rules over the people which will cause trouble as it is considered going against societies interests. Socrates finds most knowledge through dialogues and debates with other people. He rather live the life of justice rather then following the laws and this is shown when he was almost put to death for disobeying an order during the rule of the 30 tyrants. Socrates questions philosophically and moral the reason for every law in the political regime of athens and you question their justification for those laws and traditions: accepted religious beliefs. Socrates as well questions religion and the beliefs tied to religion.
