PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Glaucon, Thought Experiment
1 Feb 2017
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357b -- there are things that are good for their own sake . Being good in its first sense is good. Good in itself and good for something else. Glaucon wonders whether justice is any kind of good at all. What he argues instead is that the appearance of justice may be a good in the third sense of the term, that is, good for its consequences. Glaucon wonders if justice is good at all. Glaucon asks socrates what a just soul looks like. We like to hurt people but don"t like being hurt. It gives us pleasure, we want to be mean and nasty, that is just human impulse/nature. Balance between hurting each other and hurting ourselves (359) injustice for glaucon. Just a balance between doing and suffering injustice. 359c) they lack power to do injustice. If we granted a person to do whatever they like (thought experiment)
