For if we are just, we shall, it is true, be unscathed by the gods, but we shall be putting away from us the profits of injustice; but if we are unjust, we ...

A summary of Book 2: Parts 1 & 2 in Plato's The Republic. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Republic and what it means.

Glaucon asks Socrates to describe what justice and injustice each do in themselves, how justice benefits those who have justice and how injustice harms them.

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"What you say is quite fine," he said. "Now listen to what I said I was going to tell first—what justice is and where it came from.

For by being just we shall merely go unpunished by the gods, but we shall forego the advantages born of injustice. However, by being unjust we shall have the ...

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3 апр. 2021 г. · In Book II of the Republic, Socrates begins his account of justice with the building of the just city.

Socrates has argued that justice is a virtue, that it is better in and of itself than injustice, no matter the circumstances.

Plato expresses with humorous exaggeration his own recognition of the inadequacy for ethical and social philosophy of his idyllic ideal.