POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Polemarchus, Airline Hub, Cephalus
22 Nov 2018
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Takes place in piraeus (port city, main hub) Takes place in 429, written in 380. Socrates asks about how he has been aging (hows old age) It has helped him do what is just in life. Book i about morality, doing the right thing, justice (from poets perspective) Socrates gives example of holding a weapon for a friend who returns crazy, out of mind. Polemarchus comes into play as cephalus leave. Doing good to friends and harm to enemies. Polemarchus restates, doing good to friends who are actually good, and harm to those who are actually bad. Everyone get what they deserve = right thing/justice. Idea of justice as created by humans, not gods. Socrates doesn"t know the answer, to his own questioning of polemarchus. Justice is nothing other than giving advantage to the stronger . If rulers make mistakes than they are unfit to rule.
