POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cephalus, Thrasymachus, Socratic Method
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Pol200 lecture 4 plato; republic i & ii. A dialogue about justice doing the right thing. Setting was 429 b. c in piraeus. Socrates was killed: plato tried to develop a further socratic method thus using. Cephalus is a man of great wealth. Socrates engages with a conversation with him: how is old age treating you? . Cepahlus says old age isn"t really doing much perhaps because. Cephalus is wealthy it makes life easier: socrates suggests this and cephalus sort of agrees. Cephalus says the only good thing about wealth is that it allowed him to do the right thing. Doing the right thing paying back, speaking the truth. Certainly not always giving a weapon to a mad man for example: cephalus leaves the argument. Polemarchus enters the argument agrees that paying what is owed and speaking the truth is not a clear definition for justice: he suggests doing good to friends and harm to enemies = just.
