POLS 2000 Lecture Notes - Cephalus, Glaucon
8 Jul 2014
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Socrates has no interest in flaunting his wisdom for the sake of flaunting it: he raises questions instead but he makes no speeches, he does not defend the positivist view instead he raises questions, raising questions is modest, giving answers to those questions is difficult. Justice is helping friends and harming enemies: polos marcus, socrates says justice is not harming anyone at all, changes in speakers constantly, cephalus, polomarcus, thr the third speaker is a sophist, book 2, plato"s brothers. Cephalus = head: head of the family, wealthy, old, well respected, host of the group, traditional, only interested in material pleasure. Now that he is older he is rid of those evils to being slave of sexual desire and he has reached a point in old age where he does not feel the need to focus on wealth but to repay debts: advantage of being wealthy, what is ultimately important is one"s characters, repay debts.
