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Record W2480559204 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511763090.005

Ethics and politics in Socrates' defense of justice

2011· book-chapter· en· W2480559204 on OpenAlex
Rachana Kamtekar

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Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2011
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicClassical Philosophy and Thought
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSOCRATESEconomic JusticePoliticsThe RepublicIdeal (ethics)ScholarshipSoulEnvironmental ethicsPolitical scienceEpistemologyArgument (complex analysis)Law and economicsSociologyLawPhilosophy

Abstract

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In the Republic, Socrates argues that justice ought to be valued both for its own sake and for the sake of its consequences. Scholars divide over the importance of politics in the Republic. This chapter argues that the account of the ideal city in Socrates' defense of justice plays the role of connecting justice as a structural condition of the soul and just behavior. It raises a worry that the defense is question-begging and show why it is not. The chapter discusses some methodological implications relevant to the controversy in Plato scholarship about the relative roles of ethics and politics in the argument of the Republic. In the middle books of the Republic, Socrates lays out the very intellectually demanding conditions for knowledge of what justice is, which involve knowledge of the Good itself, a knowledge he himself lacks.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.982
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.089
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.135 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it