POLS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Martha Nussbaum, Socratic Dialogue, Socratic Method

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 250
• Professor: Colin Farrelly

Document Summary

Challenge to democracy"s ability to translate knowledge into action. Disconnect between those that know what"s best and those with the ability to make the decisions. Cephalus dialogue takes place in his house. Glaucon plato"s older brother (challenge to plato/socrates) Pose a question, tentative response, and then back and forth q&a review counterintuitive answer after refuting original idea. Come up with examples, every single answer subject to more scrutiny and questions. Cephalus: justice is telling the truth and returning anything we borrowed (businessman"s/mercantile perspective) Can"t be the case that you always should tell the truth and return something that you borrowed. Can"t say that justice is equated with this refine it, make it more concise. Polemarchus: justice is giving a man his due. Polemarchus: justice is to benefit one"s friends and harm one"s enemies. Socrates: we could be mistakes (friends might be bad or enemies might be good) Answer #4 (important challenges are now put forth)