CAS PH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Glaucon, Egotism, Subjectivism
4 Oct 2018
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He was a student of socrates, who was almost involved in plato"s dialogues. Plato"s writings are foundational for western thought and they are written in an engaging and fun way. Plato sees multiple sides of the debate; he wants to think of all the sides of the question. Socrates often appears as the main character in plato"s dialogues. His goal in this reading is to argue that acting justly or morally is in our own self-interest. He plays the devil"s advocate in the reading, arguing that morality or justice is against our best interest. In philosophy you need to think about positions that you don"t like and nd the best argument to refute it so that you don"t have to believe it. Glaucon frames the issue and argues that there are things that are good in themselves (intrinsically good things), for example joy, love.
