POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Glaucon, Noble Lie
25 Jul 2018
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Justice is simply the understanding of the stronger. Manipulation of the weak, and justice is crucial to the well being of a person. Socrates believed that plato confused a by-product with an activity. Plato, two students arguing for sel shness (evil) to socrates their teacher: glaucon and. It is better to be an evil person that everyone thinks is a good person than a good person that everyone thinks is evil. We all, to some extent, admire the successful bad man more than the unsuccessful good man. Religion, hellenism, it actually supports the sel sh evil person. It puts loop holes in the law that allows such a person to get away with it. Just perform some ritual, pilgrimage etc, and you will be cleansed. Only frightened and weak people choose the just life. Myth of gyges (if we could turn invisible (magic ring) then morality would not exist (it would not exist as a concept)).
