PHILOS 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Meddle, Healthy City, Presupposition
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Book 2: structure: glaucon"s praise of the unjust life , glaucon"s challenge, analogy between city and soul, construction of ideal city, nature of guardians, education of guardians. Glaucon"s praise of the unjust life : distinction between goods . Intrinsic goods: things good in and of itself (joy) Extrinsic goods: things good for its consequences (medicine, physical training) Intrinsic and extrinsic goods: things good for its own sake and also for the sake of what comes from it (knowledge, sight, health: origins of justice. Social contract: people come together and make laws to not suffer injustice. Since people create laws to prevent suffering injustice, the people call the laws justice. Laws and justice are human constructs (both do not exist without a political structure: ring of gyges. A thought experiment in which just and unjust men with the ring would both do bad things if they were invisible.
