PHIL 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Turnitin, Lightning
13 Feb 2018
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Political excellence or civic virtue is such that anyone has a right to express their opinion. Protagoras thinks is shared by anyone in the assembly. While it is improper to claim expertise if one is not an expert, within the context of the society it would be problematic to announce that if one is not an expert. When it comes to political context the best thing to do is pretend to have expertise. The trick of the game is for everyone to prete(cid:374)d to (cid:271)e just (cid:894)that"s (cid:449)hat protagoras see(cid:373)s to thi(cid:374)k(cid:895) He also thinks that in virtue of being human each and every one of us has some traits of being just, he ad(cid:373)its that so(cid:373)e people are i(cid:374) fa(cid:272)t (cid:862)u(cid:374)just(cid:863) (cid:271)ut (cid:374)e(cid:448)ertheless prete(cid:374)d to (cid:271)e just. He thinks that someone who has no trace of justice in them would not be human implying that potentially some individuals might count as a citizen but not as a human.
