POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cephalus, Polemarchus, Thrasymachus
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Pol200 week 4 republic books i & ii. The republic; book 1: setting and opening lines; force vs. persuasion. Socrates and the brother of plato are walking back to athens, stopped by polemarchus. Cephalus comes on the scene, he is an old business man, an admirable one. Cephalus made money, not as much as his grandfather, but more than his dad. Socrates tells cephalus that he is enjoying his old age because he is wealthy. Cephalus says that he has been able to do the right things with his wealth, paying back what he owes people. If a man gives you his sword, then asks for it back when he wants to kill someone, is that the right thing to do? - cephalus says no. Theories of justice: cephalus and polemarchus: first definition of justice; money and doing the right thing.
