POL200Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Study Questions: Glaucon, Thrasymachus
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Recall the premise of the whole arduous exercise of constructing the city in speech: that we won"t be able to recognize justice in the individual until we have identified it in the city (cf. At 432b ff. , however, socrates and glaucon encounter much difficulty in finding justice in their newly completed city. In fact they"re only able to do so because they already know what it is in the individual! This is, to say the least, a surprising turn. Al ho gh i ha" been in f on of hem he whole ime, applying i o he ci y ha" made i ea"ie fo hem o analyze he "y" ema ic" of i in a way. By ealizing ha "ince hey"ve c ea ed a ci y ha i" pe fec ly good, i i" al"o, by defini ion, wi"e, co ageo ", mode a e, and j " .
