POL S 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Glaucon, Noble Lie
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It is better to appear just when being unjust. Justice is people not screwing with one another; social agreement/common law to be just; compromise. People are just because they don"t want wrongdoing done by them. No morality, we"re just constrained for behaving badly. Justice is people not screwing with one another; social agreement/common law to be just. Coming to an agreement with one another that you don"t do wrong and i won"t do wrong (social contract) Justice only has value in preventing us from behaving badly. 361b: the perception of being just is better than actually being just. Justice = power in this sense, power to get away with whatever you want because you can convince others of your falsely just nature. If you cannot talk yourself out of it, you can use force. 362a: the important thing to aim for is not being just, but appearing to be just.
