PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Glaucon, Rationality
10 Feb 2016
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The republic is written as a dialogue in which socrates is the character who voices plato"s view. The general point of the republic is to establish how people ought to live together. In other words, he aims to demonstrate what the best organization of the community is. Socrates aims to combat a common view of justice, voiced by glaucon, that. The ring of gyes: glaucon tells the story of the ring of gyges to demonstrate this point: It is human nature to have the desire to outdo others for one"s own gain. Nature is forced by law into the perversion of treating fairness with respect (359c). To do injustice is good, but to suffer injustice is bad. In fact, to suffer injustice is worse than the benefits of doing injustice. Thus law begins when people agree to neither do injustice nor suffer it (359a). Thus justice is a mean, or middle ground, between these two extremes.
