PHL 400 Lecture 2: Week 2 - Plato and the Idea of Justice.docx
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Structure of glaucon"s argument (358b: an account of what the many believe justice to be, and what its origins are, that all those who practice it do so unwillingly . There is no argument that justice is inherently good; linked to not suffering injustice. Isolate justice from appearances, removed from rewards of seeming just. Of what profit is justice in itself to the man who possess it, and what harm does injustice do? (367d) Distinction between why do we do good things vs previous argument. There is, we say, justice of one man, and there is, surely, justice of a whole city, too? whole) The idea of justice being reached by a different way (justice in a person, justice in a city. Look at the city first, take the findings and apply them to man (relation from the part to the. In the relations of the 3-parts moderation.
