PLATO

Question 1

What is Cephalus’ conception of justice?

Answer 1

1. Truthfulness

2. Repaying debts

Question 2

What is Polemarchus’ conception of justice?

Answer 2

1. Doing good for friend

2. Doing harm to enemy

Question 3

What is Thrasymachus’ conception of justice?

Answer 3

Justice is the interest of the stronger exacted at the expense of the obeying subject

Question 4

What could be the theoretical interpretations of Thrasymachus’ conception of justice?

Answer 4

1. Amoralist

2. Immoralist

Question 5

What are the faults of Thrasymachus’ conception of justice?

Answer 5

1. Detached from ‘justice’ as a human value.
2. Extreme relativism assumes no socially constructed of justice separate from those in power.
3. Implies that notion of what is morally ‘right’ is opposite to most profitable action. Do humans really profit from going completely against their conscience?