PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Equestrianism, Thrasymachus, Sophist
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Socrates, wisdom, and caring for the soul. Soul ( mind : real / exists, healthy knowledge and/or wisdom, sick / ill ignorance. Truth: objectivism truths exist and are independent of beliefs / opinions, universal truth. Connecting the soul to the truth: doing philosophy, doing the dialectic conversation. Thrasymachus sophist ( traveling teacher : sophists were advocates of skepticism, skepticism the belief / claim that genuine knowledge is impossible. How does thrasymachus propose to understand justice : the weaker should be subservient to the stronger. Justice is in the interest of the stronger party. What are his reasons for understanding justice this way: government makes laws, laws define justice. Justice is to do that which is in the interest of the stronger. If justice is to do that which is in the interest of the stronger, then justice requires the weaker to follow the laws put in place by the stronger.
