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When pressed for examples of matters in which justice is applicable in times of peace, Polemarchus comes up with contracts and financial arrangements.
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Next up in the dialogue is, of course, Thrasymachus, who angrily pushes aside Polemarchus in order to argue that “justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger” and that “for subjects to do what was commanded by their rulers isjust.”
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And finally, Socrates puts away Polemarchus with this nice bit of snark: “I believe that Periander or Perdiccas or Xerxes or Ismenias the Theban, or some other rich and mighty man, who had a great opinion of his own power, was the first to say that justice is ‘doing good to your friends and harm to your enemies.’”
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Polemarchus first answers that justice is particularly relevant in matters of war.
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Socrates points out that those who are good with money tend to also be good at stealing money and interestingly, Socrates also raises here the issue of perjury, and Polemarchus struggles to explain how his theory of justice would deal with theft and perjury.
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Polemarchus defined justice as the art of doing good to your friends and evil to your enemies.
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Polemarchus™ claim that being a just person enhances one's life developed quickly into a decidedly metaethical discussion of the origin and nature of justice.
Metaethics Sayre-McCord, Geoff 2007
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I was going to enumerate the four forms of vice or decline in states, when Polemarchus — he was sitting a little farther from me than Adeimantus — taking him by the coat and leaning towards him, said something in an undertone, of which I only caught the words, ‘Shall we let him off?’
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But there is no need of any witness, said Polemarchus, for
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Polemarchus, an unknown Charmantides — these are mute auditors; also there is Cleitophon, who once interrupts, where, as in the
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