POL S211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: F. M. Cornford, Cephalus, Dialectic
8 Sep 2019
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The republic: interpretations of the republic, bloom; philosophers are natural rulers and they are in conflict with politicians, the actual rulers, justice. 1st on the level of individual and 2nd on the level of government. Is justice or injustice better: polis/city, you can lead a good life in a community with others, wants the city to be large enough to be self-sufficient, but small enough to have a bond with other citizens. He thinks that justice is in fact, superior than injustice: thrasymachus. T thinks he"s an expert, he throws fundamental challenge to socrates: cephalus. All characters are going to throw of around definitions of justice. He clarifies the statements, however not teaching the person that throws the statements. We are supposed to approach the republic like a conversation, like the characters with socrates. Instrumental: desirable for the consequences that it brings about. People practice justice because they don"t have the power to do wrong.
