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Glaucon Justice And Injustice Analysis

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Glaucon discusses being justice and injustice. How people act in given situations and why they were to do it. What really brought me in was the opening page when I read what this story would be about, it said "Glaucon tells the story of a shepherd named Gyges who discovers a ring with the power to make him invisible, and then uses this power to cut all sorts of ethical corners and set himself up with a very comfortable life." That statement alone had me thinking about what that really meant because to me, I am living a comfortable life and am following most ethical corners. It is crazy to think that someone has to, "Cut all sorts of ethical corners" in order to achieve a very comfortable life. Then reading more into the story of Gyges I came across how people treated justice and Injustice at that time and place, which is different from today. …show more content…

Moral justice to be specific, as in following the laws and most social norms not because you have to, but because of the greater good in it all. Thinking about the bigger picture is very big to me, laws are made for a reason and following them is the right thing to do because it makes the society run

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