PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture 2: Ethics - Lecture 2
7 Jan 2019
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Definition of justice, take 1: socrates and the gang are discussing the nature of justice. Definition of justice, take 2: but perhaps this definition still has hope, and simply stands in need of refinement. Deterioration of human excellence. but then engaging in a just acct would, per impossible, involve performing injustice. *you don"t really care about the virtuous nature of your pilot, so long as the pilot can fly the plane. Definition of justice, take 3: the discussion has stalled, but thrasymachus enters the fray with a surprising and scandalous definition of justice: Whatever is the advantage of the stronger (8) Injustice, if it is on a large enough scale, is a stronger, freer, and more powerful thing than justice (11) Better to be unjust: thrasymachus thinks injustice is a virtue, and a good judgment because it is beneficial to the agent; justice is in fact a vice and a bad judgment because it is detrimental the age (9)
