POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Thrasymachus, Polemarchus, Cephalus
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The significance of socrates objection to cephalus who"s perception is justice as telling the truth. Expect our version of justice to help the good, not the bad. However, the problem becomes when the bad man make use of the concept, where all respect for private property etc has become conditional on something else. Polemarchus provides a new version of justice a new definition if you will. Cephalus takes the grateful exit from the conversation after being defeated in the conversation through the socratic method employed. The intervention of polemarchus comes at the expense of his respect for his father due to loyalty, fulfilling his role as cephalus" heir. The reinterpretation of what is old and what may now be relevant or legal portrayal through friends. Just to harm them (the friends) who are required to do good as well as experience good. Friends who are owed what is good enemies are owed what is bad.
