PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Empirical Evidence, Polemarchus, Cephalus
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World of sense experience and the world of forms. 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. Socrates committed a terrible mistake, in the eyes of plato. His reasoning: the right people were not in charge. Its main theme: the ideal or perfect state or society. On one hand, justice relates to a correct ordering of society that is fair and decent. On the other hand, justice also relates to the quality within a person, the person who has a well-ordered soul. First definition of justice, courtesy the individual cephalus: speaking the truth and paying whatever debts one has incurred. (331c) Polemarchus: 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.
