Polemarchus says, “But I no longer know what I did mean. However, it is still my opinion that justice is helping friends and harming enemies” (page 11, second paragraph). I believe that Polemarchus doesn’t really know the meaning of justice. Justice is to be fair. That’s significant if Polemarchus has a friend who did something wrong to the enemies, so he supposes to have courage to let his friend know that he is guilty. That means justice doesn’t mean that Polemarchus is supposed to be good to his friend and harm the enemies. It’s all about having the conscious to judge right from wrong or wrong from right.
This is a good point. Polemarchus has a somewhat primitive, tribal view of justice where it all depends on whether you are friend or foe.
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