POLSCI 2O06 Study Guide - Final Guide: Timocracy, Van Stephenson, Origin Myth
18 Apr 2016
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The dialogue of the republic is hosted by cephalus. Cephalus virtue comes from the absence of desire. For cephalus, justice means: (1) no cheating or lying and (2) not owing a sacrifice to god or money to another human being. Justice is to avoid eternal pain and suffering therefore his conception of justice isn"t necessarily concerned with the unjust act itself but rather about the penalties one must pay in the afterlife. Socrates critiques this: man must be just simply for the sake of being and not for any rewards or fear of punishment. Truth and truth telling, giving back what a man has taken from another. Socrates says these notions of justice are not proper cannot always be just to give back (ex: if a man takes weapons from a friend when the friend is out of his mind). It cannot also be just to tell the whole truth to a man who is perhaps mad .
