PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Telling Stories, Virtuos, Polemarchus
19 Apr 2016
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Timeline/characters: socrates speaking through his teacher plato, proposes the question what is justice? why should we be just, starts off him returning from a religious festival with glaucoma. > rich elder of the city has a party to offer definition of justice. > justice means living up to your legal obligations and being honest. > justice is no more than the advantage of the stronger. > more of a delegitimization of justice, it does not pay to be just. > behaviour works to the advantage of other people, not to the person who behaves justly. > justice means that you owe friends help and you owe enemies harm. > give to each what is owed to him that is just. > but what if the person is insane socrates says. > he then agrees with socrates and says that he means friends owe it to their friends to do good for them.
