PHL200Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Glaucon, Cephalus, Healthy City
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Sets out to answer 2 questions: what is justice, why should one be just (is there a point to one being a good person?) Needs to show the beneficial aspect of justice. Cephalus: if you are rich it is easier to be a good person. Money doesn"t make you happy per se, it makes it easier to be good (ie. be just by paying ones taxes) This good is merely an instance of justice but it is deficient in respect to justice. Idea of giving a crazed nam back his weapon because it is the honest thing to do. --> not necessarily just though: polemarchus (cephalus"s son) inherets his father"s argument. On justice: helping your fiends and harming your enemies ( a traditional defn. of justice) Both reveolve around the idea of rendering to each what is owed to them. However, we are fallible in our judgement of what makes a person good or bad.
