What Does Thrasymachus Attack On Justice

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Book 2 following on from Thrasymachus' attack on justice, begins with Glaucon and Adeimantus drawing agreement to this anti-faction of thought, explaining that justice is a social contract in order to gain rewards in the afterlife. Glaucon divides the notion of the goods into three classes, the first class explores the instrumental kind, where things are only desirable in virtue of repercussion, this evident in his examples of physical training and medical treatment. The second category highlights things are desirable for its own sake; highlighted in his examples of joy and attaining the highest class. And lastly the final category combines both of these kinds. What the general puzzle for Socrates is, is to show that justice is not merely a
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