POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Glaucon, Noble Lie, Well-Order
4 Oct 2017
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Book i dialogue concerned with justice and whether or not it makes sense to be a just person. Thrasymachus interested in power - tyrants have best possible life - declares his actions to be just - justice is a tool/instrument to be used by tyrants to get what they want and enrich their lives. Cephalus - justice is useful, a means to an end, serves a purpose. Book ii - glaucon and ademantus challenge socrates to prove that justice is worthwhile and will make one"s life better if they are just, righteous men. Glaucon believes it is more so the reputation of justice that is worthwhile - it bene ts you - the reputation for justice and not justice itself. Adeimantus highlights another aspect of the same challenge - inner consequences - di erence justice makes in the soul of the individual.
