PHIL 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eye For An Eye, Cephalus, Polemarchus
25 Oct 2016
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The intro of the metics (noncitizen, but pretty much permanent resident of athens, typically bus ppl, cephalus and his son polemarchus. I(cid:374)itial dis(cid:272)ussio(cid:374) of se(cid:454) (cid:894)the (cid:862)sa(cid:448)age a(cid:374)d t(cid:455)(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:272)al (cid:373)aste(cid:396)(cid:863)(cid:895) --- appetites, control us, even though we think that we control them. Discussion typical of book i, huge issues are introduced but dealt with in incomplete and unsatisfactory ways will come up later. Cephalus"s definition of justice: the keeping of promises and repayment of debts. All of this is ignored by socrates (though it will come back later) and he proceeds to his counterexample : Neighbor leaves weapons w/you, and expects you not to use,etc, and return them, Lying to a killer about the whereabouts of his prey. Lying to a lunatic w/a bomb and mommy issues. Simple response to this: justice requires you to break this promise. Basis fo(cid:396) justi(cid:272)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e the disti(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:271)/(cid:449) l(cid:455)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d t(cid:396)uth-telling or b/w promise- keeping and promise-breaking.
