PHILOS 22 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michelle Obama, Thrasymachus, Polemarchus
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Being just is being at the advanced of the rulers. Special case of reducing how you should live or what u should do. How are people motivated and what are their desires. Radical political science invites us to think about the laws. Do good for your friends, harm to your enemies. Action of obeying the law is just and good for the powerful. Argues that there is no such thing as justice as a virtue. Justice just works to the advantage of other people. We want to explain things of the world. Justice is the cause of occurrence: law obeying action. Powerful people get people to obey laws which makes them more powerful which makes people obey laws. Santa is michelle obama and donald trump. Dodd 371 m 2-4 or thursday 12-2pm. Socrates concludes that it"s good to be just but in the end doesn"t really know. Theme in book 1 : theme of violence and opposition.
