POLC70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Glaucon, Utopia
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Four: building the city in speech: glaucon and adamantis are both plato"s brothers. Adamantis is more concerned with the health of society: to solve the definition and understanding of justice, they decide to create a utopia city or a city that would focus on society"s most basic needs. Building the city: they decide to focus on the city with basic needs. They say that everyone specializes in something to contribute to the good of the city (blacksmith, farmer, shop owner, etc. Was the creation of the city made just to fulfill human economic needs: glaucon says that human beings are not constituted by their physical needs, and they will want much more than they have. He says what they have created does not fully account for human desire: the city would need soldiers. If you create the perfect military, everything else in the city becomes easy, as the problem of justice is solved.
