PHIL 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thrasymachus, Glaucon, Egotism
11 Oct 2016
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Glaucon wants general clarification on the definition of justice from socrates. First, he wants to know what kind of good socrates thinks justice is. Second, he wants to know if socrates thinks it is important to really be just or, rather, it is only important to appear to be just. Socrates responds that it is important to really be just. He repeats the same general pattern of analysis already seen in thrasymachus, that is, that tries to get a handle on the nature of justice by, first, trying to get clear about the origin of justice. Game theory this is an area developed by economists and mathematicians in the 1930s. Its first serious application outside of economics was in ww2. Psychologists and political scientists followed in the 1970s and then biologists and even neuro-physiologists. B will choose tails because 1 + 3 = 4 is better than 0 + 2 = 2.
