Socratic Question "What Is Justice?" / Essays / ID: 298906

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Published: 01.12.1996.

Language: English

Level: Secondary school

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Bhumendra Jadubans
Dr. Ronnie Klein
Question 3
Glaucon and Adeimantus' challenges justice by way of three views, these views are 1. Glaucon's social contract theory (358e-359b), 2. The story of Gyges' Ring (359b-360e), and 3. The comparison of lives (360e-362c). Adeimantus says that according to the most common defenses of justice that are offered, the advantages of justice come from seeming just, not from being just (362e-367a). In other words people are only "just" because of the penalties that follow, if being "unjust" had no penalties then surely everyone would be "unjust". …

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