Glaucon

In The Republic Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus discuss the ideal city. After discussing the foundations of the city, Socrates proposes three “shocking” practices. First, that men and women should should exercise naked together to promote shamelessness concerning the body. Next, “sexual communism” or non-monogamous relationships and the common upbringing of children to discourage personal and familial interest. Lastly, and possibly the most shocking, that the city should be ruled by…

1. Why should we moral , according to Glaucon? Do you agree or disagree? Explain why? The question is how to live a good life , what kind of qualities should be there in life to lead a good life. The answer is live with morals . Moral are the norms which teaches to live a good life without the feeling of selfishness. According to Glaucon being moral means to serve others without being selfish. He directly relates moral with justice. Morals are responsible for bring justice , however immorality…

Republic. In Plato Republic, Socrates provides details of the ideal soul and provides adequate defenses of living the just life to counter Glaucon and other’s challenges of living the unjust life. In Book 2 of Plato’s Republic, Glaucon takes up the argument of Thrasymachus in praise of the unjust life in oppose to Socrates’s praise of the just life. Glaucon presents many challenges to Socrates that attempt to establish that people desire to be unjust rather than just, but that…

In Plato’s Republic Glaucon goes through a process of philosophical protrepsis key to developing Plato’s purpose. Glaucon’s journey of consisted of an altering of his conception of freedom from a negative one to a positive one when he was influenced to succumb his theories to Socrates’ challenges. Socrates manages to take Glaucon out of this dark cave where Glaucon encourages being a slave to his desires through this method of challenging, reasoning, and alternative. The process in which…

the just man and the unjust man have the power to do what they wish, as we sit back and look on: "Give each the just man and the unjust, license to do whatever he wants, while we follow and watch where his desire will lead each" (line 359c). Next, Glaucon states that the just man would be caught doing the same actions as the unjust man because they both want what's best and this is what's seen as good: "We would catch the just man red-handed going the same way as the unjust man out of a desire…

Socrates Glaucon begins the excerpt by speaking and describing what he intends to accomplish by the end of his argument with Socrates. Glaucon states he has three intended aims in his argument. First, Glaucon intends on stating the nature and origins of justice in regard to humanity. Secondly, Glaucon looks to display that all justice is done out of a necessity, but not because humanity is good. Lastly, Glaucon will show that the life of the unjust is better than the life of the just. Glaucon…

According to Thucydides, they came together to develop cities out of a desire for safety without the turbulence of conflict. In The Republic, Glaucon paints a similar vision of politics in his speech to Socrates about the emergence of justice. Through arguing that justice evolves as a by-product of individuals’ natural tendency to exhibit injustice, Glaucon suggests people band together to create laws and cities to seek protection against the mighty inflicting injustice…

Socrates argues that justice can only be realized through the moderation of the soul. Again, this will be reflected upon the city. Glaucon and Ademantus argue that the benefit or lack of justice does not always affects a person’s happiness. They start off with a positive view of justice where Glaucon wants Socrates to prove that it is good. Glaucon makes the point that if it is just to do wrong in order to achieve justice, then a man who lies or cheats but is a respected person, is living…

aspects of the complex conception, especially justice’s value. Through Glaucon and Adeimantus’ challenge towards Socrates, the question of whether justice is good only for its consequences or worthy in itself is raised. In this essay, I offer an account on what Socrates means by justice and whether it’s good in itself, drawing on Plato’s “Republic” where Socrates praises the intrinsic value of justice despite counterarguments from Glaucon, and Adeimantus. Although, when analyzed, Socrates’…

I thought both Glaucon and Adeimantus had made very strong and serious objections against Socrates about the view of justice being an intrinsic good, but I would argue that their arguments could only apply to certain people and personalities. Glaucon suggests that there are three types of good. The first good Glaucon had explained was intrinsic good which he had described “as a kind of good we welcome, not because we desire what comes from it, but because we welcome it for its own sake-joy”…