POL200Y1 Chapter Notes -Allan Bloom, Polemarchus, Glaucon
28 Apr 2013
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In order to be just as polemarchus understands the term, you would have to know who your friends and enemies are. Like most of us, polemarchus thinks he does know. Of the characters in the republic, only polemarchus champions justice in its usual political sense of loyalty to one"s city and fellow citizens against enemies outside the city and dishonest people inside it. Athenian is good enough for polemarchus (who isn"t even a full citizen of. In answering this question don"t neglect the problems in polemarchus" position exposed in his conversation with socrates, to which glaucon has been listening and which may have shaped his own views. ), mention glaucon compelling socrates to continue (page 15) and interrupting the argument in page 24. The way in which each interlocutor addresses the subject of justice gives us a reflection of them and how they think: their experiences, their values, and their prejudices, among other things.
