PHL 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Polemarchus, Meddle, Glaucon
16 Sep 2016
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Executed for corrupting (teaching) the youth in athens. Socratic message- lecturing by means of questions- leading questions. It looks like it, thrasymachus said, according to your t argument. Dystopian city (ideal state) justice is not about institutions or city states, but for individuals. Justice of a person, the soul, not the city. The city has wants and needs which represents the soul. To be the best version of yourself just man = good human being. Virtue of our humanity: how you are and what you are. Our parts and our configuration is important to know. Three kinds of goods: things which are good for their own sake (ex. Watermelons, kittens, sunsets): things which are good both for their own sake and for what comes out of it , i. e for its consequences (ex. Health, happiness, knowledge): things which are good not on their own, but solely for their consequences (ex.
