Read Plato and Answer the following questions.
- According to Glaucon why did men begin to establish laws and mutual covenants?
- What was termed by man (to be) lawful and just, according to Glaucon?
- Justice is said to be a mean or compromise between the best of all and the worst of all. What is the best of all?
- Continuing with the preceding question, what is the worst of all?
- According to Glaucon, why is justice honored?
- What would a man who is worthy to be called a man never do?
- Why do those who practice justice do so?
- What do all creatures instinctively pursue as their good?
- If both the just and the unjust possessed magic rings, what would be the nature of their actions and goals?
- Of what does the preceding answer affirm as a great proof?
- What would be thought of someone if they could obtain the power of becoming invisible and never do wrong or touch what was another’s?
- For the entirely unjust man, what is a sign of incompetnece?
- For the entirely unjust man, what is the height of injustice?
- Why must there be no seeming to be just, in the perfectly just man?