Pros And Cons Of Jean Glaucon
Part 1:
“.. if we grant to both the just and unjust license and power to do whatever they pleased, and then accompany them in imagination and see whither desire will conduct them. We should then catch the just man in the very act or resorting to the same conduct as the unjust man because of the self-advantage which every creature in its nature pursues... And yet this is great proof one might argue that no one is just of his own will but only from constraint... for there is far more injustice than in justice.”1
I really understand and agree with what Glaucon is saying in his speech. I think that what he is saying is that the only reason people are just and abide by the rules that society sets, is because we there are consequences for our
“.. if we grant to both the just and unjust license and power to do whatever they pleased, and then accompany them in imagination and see whither desire will conduct them. We should then catch the just man in the very act or resorting to the same conduct as the unjust man because of the self-advantage which every creature in its nature pursues... And yet this is great proof one might argue that no one is just of his own will but only from constraint... for there is far more injustice than in justice.”1
I really understand and agree with what Glaucon is saying in his speech. I think that what he is saying is that the only reason people are just and abide by the rules that society sets, is because we there are consequences for our