PHILOS 3XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Glaucon, Thrasymachus, Thought Experiment
26 Oct 2017
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Socrates" ending book i: i seem to have behaved like a glutton, snatching at every dish that passes and tasting it before properly savouring its predecessor. Before nding the answer to our rst inquiry about what justice is, i let that go and turned to investigate whether it is a kind of vice and ignorance or a kind of wisdom and virtue. Then an argument came up about injustice being more pro table than justice, and i couldn"t refrain from abandoning the previous one and following up on that. A new beginning: in book ii, the brothers glaucon and adeimantus step in, they did not nd socrates" refutation of thrasymachus persuasive (nor, of course, did thrasymachus!) They implore socrates to defend justice in a way that shows what is wrong with this common view. The classi cation of goods: glaucon divides goods into three kinds:
