![]() ![]() When people have done & suffered it, they agree that injustice must be avoided by passing laws. But suffering it is worse than the good that doing it is. Doing injustice is good & suffering injustice is bad. But I’ll repeat his argument & I want you to set me, him & his argument to right. ![]() S: That was more or less what Thrasymachus was saying. They think that justice is just something painful or annoying that you have to deal with in order to get the right results. The one we like for its own sake, as well as for the consequences they bring. There’s also another group that we actually don’t like in & of themselves but we like what they bring us, like exercise, medicine & most ways of making money. We like them but also what they give to us beyond themselves. G: Isn’t there something we like for its own sake & not just for the things they bring? & there’s also a group of things we like for their own sake but for the consequences they bring? Like health, knowledge, sight, etc. ![]() Nobody’s happy with how that chat with Thrasymachus ended. Glaucon, Socrates’s friend, wants to know what justice is. It Seems Like Injustice Pays off More Than Justice. ![]() Summary of Book 1 of Plato’s Republic, featuring Socrates ![]()
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