Today, I intend to show you what I found in chapter 1 in the Republic. Since I cannot describe entire story in the book, I'm going to write about what I found.
In the first part, the conversation between Socrates and Polemarchus goes on. They are talking about the definition of justice. Socrates embarked on the argument "as concerning justice, what is it? - to speak the truth and to pay your debts - no more than this? And even to this are there not exceptions? Suppose that a friend when in his right mind has deposited arms with me and he asks for them when he is not in his right mind, ought I to give them back to him? No one would say that I ought or that I should be right in doing so, any more than they would say that I ought always to speak the truth to one who is in his condition. "
"You are quite right", Cephalus who is Polemarchusi's father replied.
"But then," I said, "speaking the truth and paying your debts is not a correct definition of justice."
After some discussion continued, they started to talk about an assumed definition of justice, "a friend ought always to do good to a friend, and never evil."
(Source of the dialogue: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/xpla.htm)
Like this, speech on particular topics go on throuout the book. In my situation, it appears to be difficult to understand fully the context though it is interesting to try to understand the contents in the book.
See you,
Misaki
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment