PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Callicles, Natural Justice, Ricky Ortiz
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Good life requires elimination of all desires. Good life lies in ability to satisfy any desires. Good life requires repression of some desires socrates. Could the good life be different for different people. Yes: callicles and g&a"s account could be pluralistic. Good = pleasure and avoidance of pain. Good life will be life with highest pleasures. But good life = life of desire satisfaction. Good life = satisfaction of desire but frankford. Objective criteria a good life must meet- beuing active and going out, but what about couch potato not good life, may not enjoy being active, but it"s a feature have to be met. A wealthy, aristocratic athenian with political ambitions. Assumptions: living things seek hie rown advantage. Some living things are srotng (superior) and some are weak (inferiror) Satisfying my desires might involve treating you unjustly. Injustice = giving people less than they deserve; treating then unjustly. He is a well-born, rich young man.
