PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Ethics
Document Summary
Socrates: crito (lecture on the trial and death of socrates) Moral methodology, or, how to settle moral questions (46b-48d) That is, it is wrong to do injustice, or to do wrong, or to treat people wrongly. Socrates takes as a corollary to: principle of just action (49b-c) One must not do injustice, even for injustice received. At 49b socrates says that one must not inflict wrong in return when one is wronged: principle of just agreements (49e) One should keep agreements, provided they are just. Ought a man to do what he has agreed to do, provided it is just, or may he violate his agreements? . Socrates wants to know how to live with a brain: it"s easy to merely live (which is what crito wants, it"s not merely to live, but to live rightly . When deciding to escape : socrates said to think it through (the unexamined life is not worth living)
