PHL 400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Glaucon, Bad Life, Good And Evil
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Glaucon and socrates" arguments (glaucon: g, socrates: s) Justice is liking it for itself and what comes out of it. G believes justice belongs to the kind of drudgery: would be participated for the sake of wages and benefits but all by itself it should be fled from as something hard. G restores thrasymachus" argument: first explains what justice is and where it came from. Second, proposes all those who practice justice do unwillingly. And third, explains it is fitting that they do so for the life of unjust man is far better than the life of just man. Justice is the middle ground between the best: doing injustice without suffering it and the worst suffering from injustice and unable to avenge oneself. If there were two of these rings, and we give one to just and one to unjust man. Indeed all men suppose injustice is far more to their private profit than justice.
