PHIL1090 Lecture Notes - The Emotions, Glaucon, Tyrant
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The republic is better translated as the regime . The question of the republic is: whether one of the virtues, justice, is choice-worthy in itself or only for its accessory advantages (like pleasure or advantage/profit) by nature or by convention. Justice: what is the best way to live in light of the self community relation. Is justice what makes a city prosper or an individual. This text is about the soul and the state the two are inextricably bound. Socrates starts with the state because it"s easier to see. In greek philosophy you can"t know something that is changing. Human mind to ben form (idea) is an epistemological participation. The bed (idea/form) to the object is the ontological participation. There are many materialistic beds but only one idea. Radical, cynical and non aphoristic (uncritical) account justice is nothing more that the strong over the weak. more profitable to be unjust then just.