Wage craft and the Measure of Man in Plato's Republic

Lecturer

Thomas CookseyFollow

Corporate Author/Producer

Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus

Media Type

Video

Date of Lecture

1-30-1992

Description of Lecture

All people seek their own advantage, says Thrasymachus the Sophist. To counter this, Socrates introduces the distinction between the craft itself (techne) and the parallel craft of wages (misthoutikos techne). The latter seeks its own advantage to support and maintain the practice of the former. What seems a facile ploy is in fact crucial to Socrates conception of justice, opening ethical space that explores what it means to be a human being. Tom Cooksey, Dept of Languages, Literature and Dramatic Arts

Recommended Citation

Cooksey, Thomas, "Wage craft and the Measure of Man in Plato's Republic" (1992). Robert Ingram Strozier Faculty Lecture Series. 48.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/rs-fls/48

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Physical Format

VHS

Language

English