PHL277Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stipulative Definition, Glaucon, First Things
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N sa(cid:455)s there"s (cid:374)o sta(cid:374)dard to judge (cid:449)hat is just or u(cid:374)just. Plato thinks there is a standard apart form the laws themselves against which the whole set of laws could be judged just or unjust. In the crito, he talks about the function of government. In order to do its function it has to be able to make credible threats. In the republic, justice is each part of the state doing its own work. In order for there to be justice in the state, the individual has to be just so the state will not have corruption. First things first strategy, defining what philosophy is. But he comes up with a new model. Show us that justice benefits the one who has it. We can see how it makes sense from the pov of society as a whole to want their citizens to be just.
