History of philosophy
Rhetoric- The art of argument
Philosophy- Pursuit of the truth
Passion leads to quarrels (emotion), reason leads to harmony.
The unjust tyrant is unhappy because he cannot make common cause with the virtues.
The Republic
· The longest and most influential of Plato's dialogs.
· The dialogue opens with a discussion of old age, but then the question is raised: What is true
justice?
· A series of attempts to answer this question is given, Thrasymachus (a Sophist) argues that
whatever the tyrant demands is just (justice is the interest of the strongest). The rest of dialog
can be read as an attempt to refute this suggestion.
Justice:
1. Paying back what you have received.
2. You must give good to those who have given good to you and bad to the bad.
Justice for the tyrant means the weak serving the stronger. What if the stronger asks the weaker
to do something which is not really in his interest?
Might makes right.
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