Tag Archives: republic

On Polemarchus: Commentary on the Republic of Plato, 331d-336a (part 4)

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 Notes on 332d-333c Socrates’ questions about medicine and cooking – where each art gives “benefits” that are both “owed and fitting” – lead Polemarchus to assert, perhaps more exuberantly than he did before, that justice must be an art which gives “benefits and harms

On Polemarchus: Commentary on the Republic of Plato, 331d-336a (part 3)

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 I. “It seems that Simonides made a riddle, after the fashion of poets, when he said what the just is. For it looks as if he thought that it is just to give to everyone what is fitting, and to this he gave the

On Polemarchus: Commentary on the Republic of Plato, 331d-336a (part 2)

Aside: A commentary on Federalist 51 is up at “The Irate Nation,” if you’re curious. On Polemarchus: Commentary on the Republic of Plato, 331d-336a (part 2) part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 I. “But as to this very thing, justice, shall we so simply assert that it is the truth

On Polemarchus: Commentary on the Republic of Plato, 331d-336a (part 1)

Thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday! I was going to title this post “life in hell,” because things are really blah – I have good friends in Jersey, but life is nowhere near what I want it to be – but now instead I’m going to write another commentary on a