CLST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Thumos, Eudaimonia, Thrasymachus
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If you"re a robber who steals everyone"s lunches, and you get away with lots of it but then get caught. If you were a corrupt tyrant, you could pass a law and say everyone owes you their lunch. Because you have power, whatever you say is just. Thrasymachus agrees with this view: e. g. nixon: whatever the president says is true. There is techn or some sort of craft in every skill. Being a ruler means to be good for everyone. Stealing lunch is another skill and it may fall in with other skills. But being in government is its own skill and wants to betterment of everyone. We talk about the government being successful in terms of the good of the people. 2nd argument is metaphysical and on the human psyche. The function is to deliberate well and pursue eudaimonia. Function requires the entire psyche to be in harmony, just like the harmony of people.
