PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Glaucon, Thought Experiment, Meddle
12 Mar 2018
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They view justice as a necessary evil, which we allow ourselves to suffer in order to avoid the greater evil that would befall us if we did away with it. Since we can all suffer from each other"s injustices, we make a social contract agreeing to be just: we only suffer under the burden of justice because we know we would suffer to one another. worse without it. Justice is not something practiced for its own sake but something one engages in out of fear and weakness: glaucon"s thought experiment: Invoking the legend of the ring of gyges, he asks us to imagine that a just man is given a ring which makes him invisible. Once in possession of this ring, the man can act unjustly with no fear of reprisal. No one can deny, glaucon claims, that even the most just man would behave unjustly if he had this ring.
