ANT212H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Counterintuitive, The Examined Life, Modus Operandi
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Lecture #3: socrates on the examined life and the care the self. Last time we saw socrates debating the sophist thrasymachus. As plato portrays him in the first book of the republic thrasymachus, holds that the justice is nothing more than a trick that the strong use to take advantage of the weak. Thrasymachus further argues that this reflects the natural order of things. It is right and proper for the strong to asset advantage over the weak. For thrasymachus life consists in the pursuit of zero-sum goods such as wealth and power - th goods are zero-sum in so far as one person having more necessary entails others having less. Against all this, socrates argues that thrasymachus"s position is fundamentally incoherent. That justice cannot be reduced in the way that he proposes. Although he doesn"t himself define justice, socrates pokes holes in the definitions given by.
