POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Polemarchus, Glaucon, Tyrant
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Review: last lecture we talked about . (speech of leontius and the parallel of the city of the soul, life of men/women, community of the children) Express the aspects of tension of justice as ordinarily understood and eros, desires or longing. Eros: your desire for the object of it is so deep, to be without it makes you miserable, when you possess the object, eros to be gratified and happy; deep desire and prolonging. Questions mostly posed most vividly by glaucon; relationship between justice and. Justice is simply repressive (justice always says no) but, he hopes that justice will not turn out to be repressive, but it would turn out to be the ultimate satisfaction of the object of the longing; inferring happiness. Goodness for the practice of it ourselves, not only compatible with human happiness but somehow conferring human happiness (glaucon hopes that.