POL 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aristocracy, Timocracy, Psychological Egoism
7 Jan 2016
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Week 3 a. rejection of justice as good in itself. Justice as an ethical virtue is rejected. Justice for a city is only a best option given who we really are. The bonds of society are quite weak: we are naturally greedy and selfish that is to say the people commonly think that we are at once always motivated to act in accordance with our own interests. } psychological egoism: rejection of being a good citizen b/c that"s a good thing to do. We follow the rules out of fear, not respect: constraint, we do our fair share because we are forced to do so. If we didn"t have that force mechanism, we wouldn"t do so. a. the people believe these claims (it"s the prevailing idea in society) so. Plato must show the people are wrong: there is truth in political morality.
