PHL 101 Lecture : The City

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Only knowing that can we figure out whether morality really is better. S begins by imagining a kind of social contract : individuals come together to form a community because they aren"t self-sufficient. People become involved with various other people to fulfill various needs, and we have lots of needs, so we gather lots of people together and then we call this living together a community (p. 59). This seems to be a rhetorical question, but maybe we can think of other reasons. S introduces a principle of specialization: different people are inherently suitable for different activities , ii. People will do their work better when they specialize in only one job. (p. 60) It provides for people"s needs, but there are few luxuries. S concedes that luxuries can be introduced, but he describes this as a change from a healthy community to one that is bloated and distended (p. 64) one that will require more doctors.

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