POG 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Techne, Polemarchus, Cephalus
4 Apr 2016
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Plato was a student of socrates (plato 428-348 bc) Opening dialogue (book i) on justice: telling the truth and paying our debts (cephalus, helping friends/harming enemies (polemarchus, might is right (thrasymachus, have to have strong power to create justice) When the poor win, the result is democracy . An equality of a peculiar kind of equals and unequal alike. Citizens, resident aliens, and stranger are all on an equal footing. Commercial values: growing division between rich and poor. Solution: an enlightened aristocracy rooted in polis (vs. oikos (household)) Rulers will enjoy common property and no family ties. Co-operation is based on innate differences = social division of labour. Men should do the one thing for which he is naturally fitted. (our job in society should match our nature) Those with only an economic function = farmers, craftsmen, merchants, shopkeepers, labourers.
