POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Glaucon, Class Conflict, Polemarchus
30 Sep 2017
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Pol 2900 lecture 4 - september 19, 2017 to be a just person. Polemarchus and cephalus your reputation for justice - for being just you want the reputation, not justice itself. Back in book 1 - dialogue is concerned with justice whether or not it makes sense. For neither of them - justice wasn"t truly worthwhile for its own sake - for. Justice - is used by tyrants to use it to their advantage - thrasymachus. Justice isn"t valuable for its own sake - it"s useful; it"s a means to an end - it serves a person. It"s glaucoma and adeimantus that say prove to us that justice is in fact that is truly worthwhile --- our lives will be better if we are just. Most men would think that justice isn"t worthwhile what makes your life better is. Adeimantus steps in to bring our attention to the inner consequences.
