The New Thinkery cover image

Plato's Republic and the Problem of Justice | The New Thinkery Ep. 86

The New Thinkery

00:00

Glaucon's Challenge, and Adamantisus's Challenge

In the book, glaucon challenges socrates to prove that justice really is better than injustice. Glaucon's challenge falls into two main parts, as far as i see. He says there are things that we believe are good for their own sake and those that you only delight in for what comes from them. And then there are instrumental goods, o, so called goods, ot goods, that sort of lead to something else that's good.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app