PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Techne, Polemarchus, Cephalus
12 Jan 2017
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He"s old and he"s going to die and he"s covering himself, and the great thing about being wealthy is that it puts you in a position to be just in his definition of justice. Socrates: but what about someone who is out of his mind? (331 c) Justice is helping your friends and harming your enemies. How can justice be techne? (teachable knowledge) Human beings are unpredictable, you cannot know who is your friend and who is not, there is not a bunch of rules and apply them (like a carpenter and wood) Polemarchus -- justice is helping friends and harming enemies. Where is justice as teachable knowledge helpful? (like how medicine is applied to sick people) In war time kill enemies, help friends. But justice seems only useful in wartime and not in peacetime (332c- A chess player is better at playing chess than a just person.
