POLI 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Polemarchus, Horse Breeding
10 Apr 2016
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To harm someone, even the unjust person, is to make them even more unjust. Function of a good person is to do good, not to do harm. Crouched up like a wild beast about to spring, he hurled himself into us as if to tear us to pieces. Polemarchus and i were frightened and flustered as he roared into our midst. (336b) Thracymachus came into the conversation like a lion or a wolf. If socrates did not see him first, he would have not been able to speak against him. And i think if i had not seen him before he looked at me, i would have been dumbstruck. (336d) Heracles strangles it and skins it using its own claws, before taking the hide as armor for himself. Essentially, socrates plays the role as heracles in the republic. Justice is nothing other that what is advantageous for the stronger.
