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| The Republic Jean-Leon Gerome source Wikiart |
Book II:
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| Pleasure (1900) Eugene de Blaas source Wikiart |
Glaucon protests that Socrates has not made a reasonable enough explanation of why Justice is preferable to injustice. First, he says, there are three classes of good:
- Pleasures that are enjoyed for themselves
- Good that is valued because of its consequences
- Good that is desirable both for itself and what comes out of it.