POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Noble Lie, Glaucon, Thrasymachus
20 Sep 2017
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Questions to guide the reading of plato"s republic. Thrasmyachs" definition of justice is that justice is to the advantage of the stronger. Those in power make rules that benefit/ promote their own interest and keep subjects in oppression. He also notes that those who are unjust are benefited while those who act justly are at a disadvantage. The political significance of his definition is that it is the first time that justice is mentioned as a moral notion that norms we consider just are just convections of those who believe them. Justice is a unnatural restraint on our natural desire to have more. Socrates challenges him by first helping t admit that his definition promotes injustice as a virtue. Secondly he notes that justice is a set of rules that help a group act as a unit. Glaucon is not satisfied with socrates" argument against thrastmachus".
