GOVT-105-001 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE FOR PLATO’S REPUBLIC Book I: Refutation of definitions of justice. 1. Who are Cephalus‚ Polemarchus‚ and Thrasymachus? Cephalus: Older man‚ father of Polemarchus 2. How does Cephalus define justice? How does Polemarchus? Thrasymachus? Cephalus: Justice is telling the truth and paying your debts. If a person follows this‚ they will be fine‚ and will be okay in the afterlife. Polemarchus: Justice is being good to your friends and doing harm to your
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Socrates was a revolutionary philosopher whom at his time challenged society. He was a man of questions. When in conversation with others‚ he would merely answer questions with more questions of his own. When asking others questions to their questions‚ it not only helped him try to understand their point of view‚ but also helped him strengthen and guide his argument as well as weaken their own. As Socrates questioned other philosophers on justice‚ it helped make his argument strong that justice is
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"He is said to have been given by Jove as a guardian for Europa‚ and later to have come to Minos. When Minos was ill‚ Procris‚ wife of Cephalus‚ is said to have cured him‚ and received the dog as a reward for her services‚ as she was very fond of hunting and the dog was so swift that no beast could escape. After her death the dog came to Cephalus her husband‚ who brought it to Thebes with him when he came. There was a fox there which was said to be so swift that it could outrun all dogs.
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ideas‚ and thus force them to ultimately disagree with them‚ usually can be done in one of two ways. The first of these methods is make the person realize that their idea is contradictory to itself. An example of that would be when Socrates asked Cephalus if it would be just‚ in the context of Cephalus’s definition of justice being to repay what you owe‚ to return weapons borrowed from a man that
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The Republic of Plato consists of a dialogue between many great philosophers that attempts to answer a couple of very important questions‚ one of which is what is justice? As the book moves from one argument to the next‚ there seems to be an ongoing debate of what exactly is meant by justice and the just man. In Book IV‚ we finally begin to see essential progress made in regards to the elements of a just city. They are able to determine that a just city consists of three social classes‚ the Guardians
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states that the perfect utopian society is just‚ filled with people who do things they are fitted to do who also don’t do the things they believe they’re not fitted to do. Plato believes that what makes a man just‚ in accordance with the narration of Cephalus‚ is a combination of the qualities of having a cultured orderly personality and also wealth accumulated from either effort or inheritance and giving each person their respective dues. The statement “Plato’s perfect society cannot exist unless human
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justice‚ describe his just state and finally reflect on this just state. The theme of justice however is first presented in Book 1; which is composed of a discussion mainly between Socrates‚ Cephalus‚ Polemarchus‚ Thrasymachu. The goal of this discussion is to define what justice really is. Firstly Cephalus suggests that justice involves nothing more than telling the truth and repaying one’s debts. But Socrates proves him wrong with a counter-example that shows that following this rule could end
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In history there a few monsters that are neigh invulnerable. Creatures so mighty that only a few can defeat them‚ the Teumessian Fox and Jersey Devil are two such monsters. The Jersey Devil is a monster that has both much known about yet still manages to be mysterious. It has many different variations of how it occurred‚ but they all lead to a Mrs. Reeds giving birth to a devil. At one point or another it escaped out of her house‚ and was then exercised by a clergy. The Jersey Devil then disappeared
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Andromache Mourning Over the Body of Hector JACQUES LOUIS DAVID BAROQUE PERIOD Self Portrait With a Sunflower c. 1633 BY Anthony van Dyck ROMANTIC PERIOD The Clove Catskills‚ by Thomas Cole‚ 1827. NEOCLASSICAL PEIOD Aurora and Cephalus NICOLAS POUSSIN MODERN PERIOD Emperor-Charles-by-Titian ROMANTIC PERIOD Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog‚ by Caspar David Friedrich‚ 1818 NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD Bust of Vincent Coster Hendrick de Keyser MODERN PERIOD RESSURECTION OF
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between Socrates and his friends about the meaning of justice. They came into four definitions of justice‚ returning debts‚ helping friends‚ a system that benefits the strong‚ and a virtue that feels food. When asked about the meaning of justice‚ Cephalus believed that justice was the repayment of debt. Justice is completed when one‘s debt if fully returned. Socrates believed that the theory was flawed and may deliver disastrous result if applied in every situations. For example‚ if someone without
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