Socrates

Question 1

Who is Glaucon?

Answer 1

Socrates’s Friend.

Question 2

What is glaucon’s three different types of good?

Answer 2

Harmless pleasures
Long term pleasures
Things that are both

Question 3

Glaucon places being just in a “good” category. What is it?

Answer 3

Intrinsic but, he argues against it

Question 4

Glaucon ridicules being just using what story example?

Answer 4

Ring of gyges. Wear becomes invisible and has sex with everything.

Question 5

In glaucon’s view what is justice seen as?

Answer 5

A compromise in order to not be harmed.

Question 6

Plato responds through Socrates to glaucon’s argument by explaining what?

Answer 6

That humans are made of a (pride and desire)lion, a (other desires) many headed beast, and the human( the mind)

Question 7

What is Socrates conclusion against glaucon’s argument?

Answer 7

Justice allows for one to maintain control over one’s self and is healthy.

Question 8

What is Socrates view on punishment?

Answer 8

Punishment allows for the taming of desires and is therefore healthy for the unjust person