PHIL 1100 Lecture 9: Thoughts on Justice

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: guarini

Document Summary

Justice has many meanings, and the demand for a definition implies that there is some convergence or single underlying principle within all these words. Desire as a cause of all suffering; internal harmony as a way to be at peace with one- self. Cephalus: telling the truth and paying back what was received - context: business- man; respectable. Right/just conduct cannot be reserved as simply honesty in justice and action; exam- ple of a friend lent you a weapon, then went mad and asked for it back. Not that these things don"t matter; but too simplistic for a definition of justice. Interlocutor: someone with whom you are conversing. Polymarchus: rendering someone their due; helping friends and harming enemies . Madman would not deserve to get the weapon back. Idea in greek culture prevalent that being good meant, to some degree, pursuing excellence - justice and excellence were closely linked.