[PHIL 2280] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (27 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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Plato will spend the rest of the republic trying to respond to thrasymachus" challenge, and trying to define justice. Hans j morgenthau (1904-1980) was a major 20th century realist theorist who studied international relations theory. Insofar as there is any objectivity in these contradictory claims, it is the objectivity of power. (165: he effectively makes thrasymachus" point here, suggesting that if justice and power are equivalent, the ideal of justice disappears. Relative justice: morgenthau surveys a variety of historically and socially contingent definitions of justice, and then ends with this: What is hardly less obvious is the organic relationship between a particular conception of justice and the interests of those who hold it. (170) Thus, the invocation of justice performs the function of an ideology, the rationalization and justification of a parochial interest and position in universal terms (170) Knowledge of justice and power: knowledge is a theme for both morgenthau and plato.
