POL200Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cardinal Virtues, Episteme, Some Cities
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The republic (book i: setting and opening lines: force vs. persuasion. Glaucon, brother of plato and socrates are walking back to athens and are stopped by polymarchus and adiamentus, polymarchus wants them to stay. Ii: first definiton: money and doing the right thing low, man of moderation. Cephalus says virtue with money making is not valuing it too high or too. C says wealth only helps a little with aging, the only thing it"s allowed him to do is the right thing in life etc. Theories of justice: thrasymachus: t represents the sophists. Believed that justice had no divine or natural origin, purely convention. Justice is agreements between ppl (social contracts: t confronts socrates. T: justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger. Some cities are ruled by aristocracies, tyrranies and democracies: each. Justice is what the stronger persuade the weaker that it is makes rules to their own advantage ex.
