POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Glaucon, Omnipotence, Cephalus
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The republic is to show us what we expect of justice and whether the republic satisfies our expectations. Not that the definition is satisfactory, but that we can use these arguments to further our understanding of justice. Justice means no you can"t have that, it is theirs, not yours. The just person is who said no to himself. He who sacrifices what is good for himself for the goodness of others. Glau-justice is so great a good for oneself that it is worth the sacrifice. Yes justice is hard, but worthwhile, even heroic. Adi -justice is actually pleasant, you don"t have to be a hero. Its enough to know how to differentiate the just man from others. Each of them would like justice to be what they say, but socrates believes either defini- tion will be difficult. He accepts the challenge to prove/ disprove their definitions. Admits they still don"t know what justice is.
