POL200Y1 Lecture : lecture note
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The criteria of profit must be applied to the idea of justice. Each artisan practices his art for his own benefit. Socrates confuses the situation by insisting that only as a wage earner is the artisan concerned with the good of the art. Socrates has now introduced wage earning as an art itself. Socretes has defeated thrasymechus by conceding his arguments. Justice is a practice that is more advantageous to better and stronger human beings. They don"t find ruling attractive for the sake of ruling. The good man is not a selfless idealist. They don"t find the usual wages of ruling attractive either. Good men are largely indifferent to the things that thrasymechus presented. Only in one case would they rule: when there is no one better to do the job. Good men will rule to avoid the evil of being ruled by inferior men. The just man is a high minded simpleton according to thrsymechus.
