POLI 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Luxurious, Sophos, Glaucon
10 Apr 2016
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Socrates suggests that the scope of question be expanded for individual to a larger scale. To better understand the just individual, it will help to understand the just city. City (polis) = shared settlement to provide basic needs of survival: food (farmer), shelter (carpenter), clothing (weaver and shoemaker). Each person will have their own role and work for the benefit of everybody. Each person has a natural talent for one role over another: implies a need for toolmakers, shepherds and herdsmen. A city needs more than 3 people: there is no such thing as perfectly self-sufficient city, trade is necessary. Need for imports require: surplus for exports. Therefore more of each specialist to produce it: merchants. Therefore shipbuilders to build the ship for sailors. Marketplace for exchange: moneychangers and retailers. All of these people are needed simply to provide the basics of survival. There is, so far no account of any luxury, entertainment, education, etc.
