Ethics Quiz 1- Plato Republic

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Socrates

  • we discover justice

  • JUST rather than unjust

  • ascetic (self discipline)

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Thrasymachus

  • we invent justice

  • UNJUST rather than just

    • unjust people are happier

    • private contracts …just person is the loser

    • income tax …just person pays more

    • political officer …your associates will be mad at the just person because the just won’t grant favors

    • Tyrants=most unjust + happiest +rich

  • hedonist (act on self pleasure)

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The Ring of Gyges

  • no one yearns to become a just person…we just HAVE to

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Plato

  • perfectly unjust man happy & is seen as good

    • always acts unjustly

    • everyone believes he is just 💡doubt?

    • lives a life of PLEASURE

  • perfectly just man unhappy & is seen as bad

    • always acts justly

    • everyone believes he is unjust 💡doubt?

    • lives a life of TORMENT

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Socrates

Socrates’ defense of justice

  • triparatite division of the soul

    • justice within (proper harmony)

      -Ruler: Rational Part

      …our soul

      -Irrational Part

      …our desires/appetites

      -Spirited Part

      …our passions/emotions

  • Justive when each part performs its function

    • Rational part has the irratinoal & spirited portions in subjection

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