PHIL 1034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Glaucon, Egotism
10 Sep 2015
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Glaucon"s challenge review: the perfectly just man vs. the perfectly unjust man! untrustworthy unreputable, be tortured! the gods by giving them the best sacri ces etc. Make the perfectly just man have all the bad consequences. no friends. deemed. Make the unjust man do whatever he wants and even potentially win over the favor of. Glaucon asks if socrates still would be just! Rational egoism - which actions are rational and which actions are irrational! What types of people do we need in a basic" society! What is the result of adding luxuries to our basic society: mutual need since no one can do everything for their themselves alone. Farmer is going to farm, but he needs tools to farm, so now he needs metal smiths, Now we need soldiers to get that land and expand to get more! It"s not indiscriminate in it"s aggressiveness !
