POL 4376 Lecture 3: Plato

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 4376
• Professor: jean rodrigue pare

Document Summary

Protagoras: socrates irony: he"s teaching what ought to be done, and you have to perform the action and its the external aspect of the behaviour it will work. People will see that as virtuous and morally good: it"s that sense of moral conformity, and any moral teaching. You reward certain behaviour and punish others to encourage conformity; reward the behaviour not the understanding of it: punishment is not sufficient and it does not have its own value within itself, its for education. The virtue being taught is not internal motivation and acting for the sakes of goodness of morality, its do not do that and being taught is the external behaviour: social rules are external and dimensions of an action. Those who enforce the rules are the leaders: moral prescriptions is to promote one"s own interests. Morality is the inner dimension and why do you do that.