Category: Ring of Gyges

Glaucon and Adeimantus, both Platos brothers, were seeking to come to a conclusion on whether justice is better than injustice. The Republic book II begins with Glaucon arguing against Socrates position of justice. Glaucon argued that by nature humans are selfish and unjust, and that justice is not good in itself; instead justice is a…

Given the fantastic premise of this myth, we are able to construct a thought experiment to test out the virtue of the two types of human beings: just and unjust. Do they share something deeper in common, on the basis of their shared human nature? Glaucon posits that to possess the ring of power is…