POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Name: _______KAYE T. CADIZ ___ _ Score: ____________ Date: December 10, 2020

Course, Year & Section: BBTLEDICT 1-1 Student No.: 2020-05248-MN-0

Professor: Mr. Kris Bolaños

I.
a. Polemarchus

Unjust people are the ones who do bad things to others, while on the other
hand, just people are the ones who do fair things to others. Polemarchus said that
justice is prone to two groups of individuals, friends, and enemies. Your friends are
the one who does good things to you and your enemies are the ones who do
bad things to you. Polemarchus also said that it's natural to hurt your enemies
because your enemies harmed you, so it's acceptable to hurt them. You're only
harming your enemies and you're only defending yourself from being harmed by
your enemies. You need to take care of your mates and be nice to them, or they
will be your enemy.

Socrates points out three aspects of the debate about expertise,

knowledge, and usefulness. Determining who our friends and enemies are if you
bumped into somebody and now they're putting a fit on you doesn't imply they're
already the enemy or they're doing everything wrong with you because they
apologized to you afterward and you know they're a decent guy they're really
getting a bad one. On the other hand, there are people who are friends with you
only to know vulnerability, to backstabbing you, because they want you down.
We don't know who our friends and enemies are it takes time to know, and not
only because of their actions, you base their real motives on you. You ought to
know them rather than on the basis of their behavior. Maybe in our culture, there's
a competition there's going to be an enemy, so being just people and we want
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to do bad things in our enemy to protect ourselves from them, doing bad things
to our enemy makes them worse, so that's the sense of the enemy that they're the
worst, so we want to hurt them more and more and make them mad, it's justice
doing wrong things to others simply because they're our enemy. So Socrates said
that they don't hurt others even if they do harm to you.

b. Thrasymachus

For Thrasymachus, justice is an asset for those who are powerful or higher.
The governing factor is the strongest of any society, such as democracy,
dictatorship, or anarchy. Disobeying officials are wrong since they determine
justice. But Socrates points out that the rulers can do and make the wrong laws.
Are we expected to follow the rulers or not? If they're wrong, if we follow them,
we're going to do what's not to their benefit, and if we disobey them, we're going
to do what's really their gain, then that means even though we disobey the
authority that would be just if the authorities are wrong. But then Thrasymachus
said that if anyone makes a mistake, they're not powerful, or if the rulers make a
mistake, they're not rulers, they're just pretending to be rulers. No one is particularly
skilled at something because he's making a mistake. So Thrasymachus is seeking
a different strategy, the rulers are like shepherds who fatten their flock and
slaughter them which is the rulers who are supposed to profit from the laws they
make. Socrates offers a fascinating claim that any art and science is meant to
help anything other than a practitioner of that art or science.

Justice seems like a virtue because even a murderer wants a companion

in life, needs someone who can take care of them, and many more. If we allow
our interests to take advantage of us so our lives appear to be inflated, and we
will be unjust beings. By definition of a culture that is incredibly unequal, where
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the interests of the authorities or the people to take priority over everything else.
So even an unjust person must have certain fair limits to his or her conduct.

II.

Socrates' view that justice as the virtue of the soul, it is what we can aim for
by being more in contact with our natural condition by practicing the true virtues
that lead us to our true happiness and peace of mind, and thus only justice can
bring true happiness and injustice cannot bring true happiness. If we ever identify
any great virtues, it must be justice.

Living a happy and blessed life is a just person, and those who have a
miserable life are unjust. Justice is the virtue of the soul, and unjust is vice. In other
words, the soul has a special role of justification and deliberation, and it cannot
function well without the virtue of fairness. So a strong soul makes sense and takes
good care of things because it's just a soul. That means that the spirit of the man
lives well. So, survival is better than an unfair life.

III.

It is more profitable to be unjust than just a person, for an unjust person is

more of a vicious person because they turn out to be ignorant and bad rather
than decent and smart. It's like the singer they're trying to outperform the non-
musician, but not their fellow artists, they're looking at them as equals. Each has a
feature that can only be the greatest aspect of it. The virtue of each item is what
allows it to work well.

Unjust people will enjoy the full rewards of the things they're taking. If they
can get away with anything, they're not going to suffer discrimination, and that's
when I feel better about the injustice of life. The one who leads an unjust life does
not suffer the consequences of the wrongful actions that he or she commits. If a
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person gets caught in the act, they're going to serve prison time. Who needs to
be in jail for a long time because they've been trapped in the wrong things. An
individual who is should have faith in him. Confidence allows the residents of the
city to live well when they are all equal. They have no jealousy of each other
which gives pleasure.