POL200Y5 Lecture : Reading_summary_200.pdf
17 Apr 2013
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Socrates and cephalus discuss the burden of the old age: Cephalus: while these burdens are eased by wealth, it is people"s character and habits that really determine whether or not their lives are hard to bear , not their age. Wealth is important mostly because it reduces the likelihood that someone will be tempted into being unjust, because he is poor, and so lessens his fear of what will happen to him after his dies. Cephalus: speaking the truth and paying one"s debt. Thrasymachus: justice is the advantage of the stronger. Socrates asking cephalus about the old age and how it is different from being young: Cephalus: some complain about the old age ( as they lost the pleasure of drinking, parties, sex and more) and they get angry as if they had lived well then but are now hardly living.
