PHIL1070 Lecture Notes - Thrasymachus, Polemarchus, Cephalus
5 Feb 2014
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Friends: difference between seeming and being, according to polemarchus" definition, just cohesion, just have to appear to like each other, reality: need to identify who is genuine, what makes someone good, if justice is an activity we do on one another, the proper application must be to do people good and never do harm (ie. if we beat a dog he becomes worse at being a dog, what are human virtues, the virtue of being a musician is to play well, certain things every human should be competent at just to be a good human being (ie. just because a horse is slow, it isn"t bad at being a horse, may be a bad racehorse, but not bad at being a horse, there are standards that a human is supposed to be, particular functions, some kind of way humans should be.
