GERMAN R5B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Polemarchus, Cephalus
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Read the threshold of democracy, parts 3 and 4 (the game, roles and factions), your role sheet and job sheet, and plato"s republic, part i (in threshold, pp. Please post here about what you read in the republic. In plato"s republic, part l, the chapter opens up with socrates visiting polemarchus to his house. There, he and his friends begin to chat. While discussing with his group, he asks what the definition of. Justice is, which is the main question that leads this chapter. Cephalus talks about being truthful and paying one"s debts, in which socrates asks, as concerning justice, what is it? . After his friends try to define the meaning of justice, he rebuts it with more questions and contradictions. In this chapter, he tries to discover what justice is by asking individuals what it means to them.
