PHI 1101 Final: Republic Model Answers (all 7)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Laura Byrne

Document Summary

Premise 1: justice is telling the truth and paying your debts. (1 mark) Premise 2: justice is not harmful. (1 mark) (unstated premise: the argument is an enthymeme. ) (1 mark) Premise 3: telling the truth and paying your debts is harmful. (in the case of the insane man and his weapons. ) (1 mark) Conclusion 1: therefore, justice is not harmful (by p2) and justice is harmful (by p3). (1 mark) (contradiction) (1 mark) Conclusion 2: therefore, the statement justice is telling the truth and paying your debts is false. (1 mark) (by reductio ad absurdum; because of the law of non-contradiction) (1 mark) Conclusion 3: therefore, the statement it is not the case that justice is telling the truth and paying your debts is true. (1 mark) (because of the law of excluded middle) (1 mark) Premise one: the stronger are the rulers. (1 mark) Premise two: the rulers make the laws. (1 mark)