PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Empirical Evidence, Polemarchus, Cephalus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Mark Brown

Document Summary

World of sense experience and the world of. Can imagine things but only describe them, not to know them. Crito: socrates about to be executed, charged with impiety and corruption of the youth. Cephalus: speaking the truth and paying whatever debts one has incurred. (331c) It is just to harm unjust people and benefit just ones. (334d10) Another way to put this second definition is like this: it is just to harm one"s enemies and unjust to harm one"s friends. The third definition of justice comes from the. Justice is, the same in all cities: what is advantageous for the established rule. Since the established rule is surely stronger, anyone who does the rational calculation correctly will conclude that the just is the same everywhere. What is advantageous for the stronger. (339a) Socrates committed a terrible mistake, in the eyes of plato. His reasoning: the right people were not in charge.