PHIL 111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Glaucon, Thought Experiment, Eudaimonia
27 Jan 2014
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True or false? (1: what"s the significance of co-meditation? (1) Glaucon challenges socrates with the thought experiment concerning the ring of. Explain the thought experiment and socrates" reply to it. (10) Greek mythology: if both a moral person and an immoral person possess an invisible ring which allows them to change forms and perfectly deceive people, they"d both behave immorally. If the moral person doesn"t take advantage of it, he"s a fool. This tale proves that people are only just because they are afraid of punishment for injustice. No one is just because justice is desirable in itself. Socrates is reluctant to respond to the challenge that morality is desirable in and of itself, but the others compel him. There are two kinds of political justice the justice belonging to a city or state and individual the justice of a particular man.
