PSCI 3301 Lecture 1: Plato political theory
11 May 2017
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Tuesday, april 11, 2017 4:05 pm: justice = human virtue. If justice is human virtue, by making them more just you can"t make them unjust. Thresemecus -> justice is the advantage of the stronger: justice only benefits those that can write the rules, not following justice benefits the weak. People don"t want to rule to sort out other people"s issues: need some kind of side benefit, get paid, get honors, get forced to rule, pre-socratics, difference between the philosopher and the city. They didn"t go into the city and start questioning people"s opinions. By questioning things, the city becomes unhinged. Kind of the opposite of a treatise: dialogues, locke wanted to bore you to death, tries to be more exciting, kind of silly, political regimes always shape the types of souls of human beings. Greek soul is more of a character: the republic: book 1. In order to know justice, you have to know injustice.
