PHILOS 3XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thrasymachus

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 3XX3
• Professor: Mark Johnstone

Document Summary

Socrates refutation of thrasymachus: justice is the advantage of the stronger. The rulers, they make the rules, self-serving, advance their own interests. Insofar as we pursue justice, we curtail our own interests and serve those of the rulers who created the rules. A craftsperson acts in motivation of the interests of the subjects, not to bene t themselves. Techn : forms of expertise that play a certain role in society. Socrates expresses dissatisfaction with the conversation in book i. Committing injustice and getting away with it vs not and getting accused.