POLSCI 2O06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proverb, Episteme, Abstract Theory
28 Sep 2016
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Justice is when the right people are doing the right jobs: recall: Auxiliaries: courage (police, keep order, defend the city, can only listen to good stories, ones that make them just and wise, embodied in the heart) Workers: appetite (95% of the people who do normal things) Justice as a whole is that you have these three positions, and each of them do what they are supposed to. 416e-417: five things auxiliaries must do (end of book 3) 424a: marriage, must be governed as far as possible by the proverb, friends share everything in common. Polemarchus interrupts socrates in the beginning of book 5. 449c: adeimantus is bothered by socrates" explanation of a just city. Book 5- three waves in which the ruling class would have to be reformed to make a just city. Required reforms: cannot have a just society if you rule out women. They might be better at a certain job (call for gender equality).
