PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Thrasymachus, Cephalus, Polemarchus
12 Mar 2018
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Just behavior works to the advantage of other people, not to the person who behaves justly: thrasymachus assumes here that justice is the unnatural restraint on our natural desire to have more. Justice is a convention imposed on us, and it does not benefit us to adhere to it. The rational thing to do is ignore justice entirely: thrasymachus makes clear, justice is not universally assumed to be beneficial. First, he makes thrasymachus admit that the view he is advancing promotes injustice as a virtue. In this view, life is seen as a continual competition to get more (more money, more power, etc. Socrates then moves on to a new argument. Understanding justice now as the adherence to certain rules which enable a group to act in common: socrates points out that in order to reach any of the goals.
