Socrates Evil

The health of the nation is like the health of a human. If a part of our society is being done wrong, then the whole society is being done wrong. Socrates tells Polemarchus that we are not just even when we harm our enemies because anything we do to harm someone else harms us too. Socrates argues that by doing evil to anyone we cripple our capacity for justice, whether they are our enemy or not. He says that something "deteriorates in the excellence of a man" when we do harm to anyone, even the enemy. So, Socrates argues that injury always leads to injustice. A person who is just will never concern themselves with money or power. They will only concern themselves with the needs of others and the needs of society. They aren't worried about being

Glaucon is one of the people present in Book One, as he is walking home with Socrates. Glaucon argues that three categories of good exist; Good that is desirable for themselves and not for reward. He calls these "harmless pleasures and delights."; good that is "desirable for their own sake and for the results," in other words, knowledge, and health; good that again is "desirable" but "undesirable" because they include ways of making money. Glaucon asks Socrates what category justice would fall under. Socrates answers that it is the highest of the three because justice is desirable for itself and for its rewards. Glaucon agrees but argues that most people place the least importance on justice and lays out his reasoning for it. Glaucon says that justice originates where men have done and suffered evils. He says that man will behave and follow whatever path that is the most prosperous and will only follow laws when they serve a man's purpose. Glaucon goes on to tell the story of the Ring of Gyges, a ring that could render a person invisible. How then would a person not become corrupt with a power like that in their possession? Then Glaucon argues that parents will only teach children to be just for appearances, that even the unjust man who seems just is rewarded as much as the man who really is just. Adeimachus defends his brother by saying no one praises justice but is just only for the rewards that you reap by being