PHIL 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eye For An Eye, Cephalus, Polemarchus
4 Oct 2016
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3 characters have 3 different arguments for the definition of justice. The introduction of the metrics, cephalus and his son polemarchus. Oh no i"m happy to be free of that savage and tyrannical master ). This discussion is typical of book 1; huge issues are introduced but dealt with an incomplete and unsatisfactory ways-they will come up later. Cephalus"s definition of justice the keeping of promises and he repayment of debts. Justice (in court) as the finding of the truth. Justice as being true to your word and your principles (also, hypocrisy and the core of immortality) Justice as a big promise (a social contract). All of this is ignored by socrates (though it will come back later) and he proceeds to his counterexample. Lying to a lunatic with a bomb and mommy issues. Lying to a killer about the whereabouts of his prey. The simple response to this sort of counterexample. Promises always have well understood, implied qualifications.
