PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thrasymachus, Polemarchus, Theft
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Quoting simonides: to give each what is owed to him . The smart thing to do: reinterpretation: benefit your friends and harm your enemies. To treat someone well, you have to know how. You"ll know how to help them and harm them at the same time. Paradox: just person is kind of a theif because if a just person is clever at guarding money, he must also be clever at stealing it. If friends are useful , one might be mistaken about who one"s friends are. We must redefine friends as those who are both beleied to be and useful . Belieivng someone is your friend when they actually aren"t. Harming x makes x worse, so we must never harm anybody lest they become harmful. Thrasymachus complains that socrates gives no answer, then gives his own. Whoever is in power is in charge. Justice is in the advantage of the stronger .
