POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Polemarchus, Cephalus, Glaucon
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327a to 334b: socrates and glaucon are leaving a goddess festival and are ordered to wait for. They say they have no choice and follow. Conversation with cephalus: asks polemarchus" father cephalus about old age; he replies that some lament the loss of sex and partying as if they were no longer alive, but cephalus enjoys pleasures of the mind than the body. In old age such passions die down and leave one very peaceful, free from frenzied masters such as lust. Then this isn"t the definition of justice, speaking the truth and giving back what one takes? (331d: cephalus agrees but passes discussion over to polemarchus, who disagrees. Justice, according to simonides and polemarchus, is a certain art of stealing for the benefit of friends and the harm of enemies. The man who seems to be, and is good, is a friend .
