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	Glaucon's Speech in Republic 2.358c-360d
		An important part of Glaucon's speech is his explanation of the origin of morality--actually what he takes to be the prevailing conception of morality.
		It is important because the theory of human nature that Glaucon uses to explain the prevalence of this conception is used later to advance his main argument.
		Glaucon is trying to show that the (best) explanation for the origin and widespread acceptance of morality, understood as the rule that we should neither injure others nor be injured by them, are the general psychological "facts":
	www.wku.edu /~jan.garrett/302/glaucon2.htm (1027 words)

	I claim that the Republic is a protreptic discourse, as defined by Slings
		Glaucon is subject to desires for luxury (372), sex (474d), and honor (548d).
		Though Glaucon says the argument for injustice is not his, his states of character show that he desires the objects of the life it advocates.
		Glaucon’s recognition that the just are happier than the unjust (580b) reflects modification of his dispositions.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/GALLAGHER.html (414 words)

	Character Sheet: Glaucon and the Void by Abdiel
		Glaucon's efforts and struggles with foes able to avoid his gravitational prowess have led him to train hard to develop the gravity wells that chill his opponents and leave them unable to move.
		Glaucon's staff also acts as a stabilizer for his telekinetic powers, causing them to strike his opponent far more often, no matter how they try to evade him.
		Glaucon's robes and staff will make even the strongest attacks dissipate reducing them to a level that can be ignored indefinitely by his indomitable willpower.
	www.electricferret.com /fpl/teams/team5/nov16-698992000.htm (1473 words)

	SparkNotes: The Republic: Book II
		What Glaucon and the rest would like Socrates to prove is that justice is not only desirable, but that it belongs to the highest class of desirable things: those desired both for their own sake and their consequences.
		Glaucon ends his speech with an attempt to demonstrate that not only do people prefer to be unjust rather than just, but that it is rational for them to do so.
		Glaucon looks less kindly on this city, calling it a “city of pigs.” He points out that such a city is impossible: people have unnecessary desires as well as these necessary ones.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/republic/section2.rhtml (2122 words)

	Gyges
		Glaucon (Plato's brother) comments that he has never heard an argument which has convinced him that the just life is really better than the unjust life.
		Glaucon claims if the just and unjust man were each given a ring of invisibility, both would act exactly alike.
		Glaucon paints a scenario of a persecuted just man who people think is unjust,, and stupid - as contrasted to an unjust Machiavellian man whom people think is kind, just, wise, helpful, courageous, resourceful...
	www.walkupsway.com /Gyges.htm (1367 words)

	Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		He must convince Glaucon and Adeimantus that on their considered conceptions of personal justice and personal happiness, one is happier being just than unjust, and this he can do quite independently of anything that he says about the flourishing and justice of cities.
		Glaucon reacts to the first city with spirited indignation, declaiming that it is fit for pigs and not human beings.
		Glaucon is not calling for satisfaction of unnecessary appetitive attitudes, for the relishes he insists on are later recognized to be among the objects of necessary appetitive attitudes (559b).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/plato-ethics-politics (15675 words)

	Plato, "The Ring of Gyges"
		Glaucon says that if you look at what people really are, then you will see that they believe to do wrong is desirable and to suffer wrong is undesirable.
		Glaucon's account is in accordance with the cluster of ethical theories such as psychological and ethical egoism, psychological and ethical hedonism, and ethical relativism.
		Glaucon believes human beings practice justice in order to avoid the harm that would come to them if they disobeyed the laws of the society.
	philosophy.lander.edu /ethics/notes-gyges.html (1008 words)

	Plato and the Social Contract
		Glaucon apparently presupposes that the human good is some combination of power, pleasure, and wealth, and that because these goods are limited, humans compete with one another over them.
		Glaucon’s social contract theory, since it is based on most people’s opinions about justice (Rep. 358 a), belongs to the low levels of the Divided Line and Allegory of the Cave.
		To summarize, Glaucon’s version of the social contract maintains that the natural world is morally indifferent or neutral, that human nature is predominately avaricious and competitive, and that in order to protect ourselves from each other’s pleonexia, we can devise relatively sound rules of justice.
	www.uwplatt.edu /~drefcins/233PlatoSocialContract.html (4018 words)

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		Glaucon and the others told me not to drop the matter but to answer Thrasymachus, who had asserted that there is no such thing as justice but who had asserted, rather, that the strong shall rule and the weak shall serve.
		Glaucon: It is the knowledge of the guardians which is found among those whom we were just now describing as perfect guardians.
		Glaucon: Yes, that is the nature of democracy, whether the revolution has been won by arms, or whether fear of revolution has caused the opposite party to capitulate.
	www.isu.edu /~andesean/plato.htm (12381 words)

	20th WCP: Spelunking with Socrates: A Study of Socratic Pedagogy in Plato's Republic
		Glaucon's response to the introduction of the analogy is important: "'It's a strange image...and [strange] prisoners you're telling of'" (Republic, 515a).
		Thus, if Glaucon is going to ultimately embrace the allegory of the cave, he must first overcome his notion that the image seems so bizarre.
		The fact that Glaucon does not readily see the analogy of the cave lends weight to the notion that Socrates means to be genuine here not only because the pattern does not follow that of mimetic irony, but also because the dramatic context portrays Glaucon as a real life example of the allegory.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciBout.htm (4555 words)

	Brian Hafer - Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"
		When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled, and he will not be able to see anything at all of what are now called realities.
		Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death.
		[Glaucon] Impossible, he answered; for they are just men, and the commands which we impose upon them are just; there can be no doubt that every one of them will take office as a stern necessity, and not after the fashion of our present rulers of State.
	home.comcast.net /~bhafer/cave.html (1655 words)

	Sallis on Eide
		Glaucon has just asked Socrates to explain what he means by calling philosophers lovers of the sight of truth.
		But what is most amazing is that Glaucon proceeds simply to grant what Socrates has said as though it were perfectly obvious.
		When Glaucon grants without hesitation that the beautiful is one and the ugly also one, Socrates proceeds to extend what he has said to all the eide:
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~hartleyg/399/sallis1.html (2035 words)

	Hints for the Paper Assignment
		Glaucon's suggestion to Plato is that virtue ethics (all ethics, actually) is really just a sham.
		In this section you will try to argue for a response to Glaucon from Confucius and yourself, and then you will analyze what your agreement or disagreement with Confucius reveals about your view of ethics as a whole.
		Glaucon's challenge to Plato is no small one.
	www2.drury.edu /cpanza/hints.html (4245 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: The Republic Study Guide
		Summary: Book II Thrasymachus, Polymarchus, and the others having gone on to enjoy the festival, Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus are left alone to continue the debate on justice.
		Glaucon, eager to hear Socrates demonstrate that justice is worthy of pursuit as both an end and as a means to an end, offers to play devil's advocate and oppose his friend in order to resolve the debate once and for all.
		Glaucon's first assertion, according to the popular definition, is that justice is a legally enforced compromise between doing injustice to others and having injustice done unto oneself.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/republic/section4.html (1061 words)

	Character Sheet: Glaucon and Aglaia by Abdiel
		You have another chance." Glaucon lifted his face to Aglaia, the one who had stolen his dreams a thousand times when they were young.
		The intrepid hero touched by Glaucon and Aglaia will have eternity to ponder his error, floating endlessly in the fl beyond of the Void.
		He would like to think that his choice was made for him - that he had no part in the run of it, since he trailed his fingers across the surface of the Void and flung it at his foes, a thousand shining lights winking out of existence that his Love might be saved.
	www.electricferret.com /fpl/teams/team5/apr17-563712003.htm (1101 words)

	Plato : The Republic : Socrates - Thrasymachus - Glaucon
		But you have, Socrates, said Glaucon: and you, Thrasymachus, need be under no anxiety about money, for we will all make a contribution for Socrates.
		Glaucon and the rest of the company joined in my request and Thrasymachus, as any one might see, was in reality eager to speak; for he thought that he had an excellent answer, and would distinguish himself.
		For if, as you say, justice is the obedience which the subject renders to their commands, in that case, O wisest of men, is there any escape from the conclusion that the weaker are commanded to do, not what is for the interest, but what is for the injury of the stronger?
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.8/bookid.1788/sec.10 (862 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 274 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After its termination he fled, together with Chremonides, to the court of Ptolemy Philadelphus, where he was received with great honour, and rose to a high place in the king's con fidence.
		Considering, however, the frequency of anachronisms in Plato, it seems most probable that this Glaucon is his brother.
		It is universally believed that this Glaucon is the Athenian philosopher mentioned by Diogenes La-ertius, as the author of a book containing nine dialogues, entitled, 4>ei§wAos, EwpzirfSijs, 'AjuiW^os, EtQias, Atxn0€i5i7S, 'ApioTo^a^s, Ke^aAos, 'Ara^-77/uos, M6j>e£6j>os.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1382.html (856 words)

	Free Barron's BookNotes for Barron's Booknotes - The Republic by Plato-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from ...
		Glaucon confesses that he does not really believe Thrasymachus' philosophy, but neither does he see any good reasons for believing that the just life is better than the unjust.
		Yet here Glaucon introduces the central theme of The Republic-"justice" as the principle of the organization of the various excellences of men and states and not as a reward for good deeds.
		Do not, then, I repeat, merely prove to us in argument the superiority of justice to injustice, but show us what it is that each inherently does to its possessor-whether he does or does not escape the eyes of gods and men-whereby the one is good and the other evil.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/republc13.asp (835 words)

	Xenophon : The Memorabilia : VI
		Glaucon,[1] the son of Ariston, had conceived such an ardour to gain the headship of the state that nothing could hinder him but he must deliver a course of public speeches,[2] though he had not yet reached the age of twenty.
		The heart of Glaucon swelled with pride as he drank in the words, and gladly he stayed to listen.
		Be careful, Glaucon (he added), lest in your thirst for glory and high repute you come to the opposite.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.8/bookid.1792/sec.23 (1378 words)

	Auraborus - What (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As I was saying, Ouroborus is the mythical symbol of a snake eating its own tail, thus signifying the continual distruction and recreation which makes up the universe.
		Glaucon - Well, I mean, the author obviously shares the same point of view as Ben.
		Glaucon - It's just, well, the strip is in fl and white but the title is in color.
	www.csun.edu /~webart/s01project3/knellj/what.html (460 words)

	Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Glaucon then challenges Socrates (who here speaks for Plato) to prove that virtue really is its own reward, that it is in one's own self-interest to be good or just or ethical.
		According to Glaucon most people believe that moral goodness is really a kind of necessary evil.
		For instance, we might be brave when it would be wiser to back down, or show misplaced loyalty when a true friend would not let his friend behave dishonorably.
	academics.vmi.edu /psy_dr/Republic.htm (456 words)

	Plato's Republic - Gyges' ring
		Glaucon steps in when Thrasymachus has been silenced by Socrates to defend the opinion that people don't practice justice for itself, but only for fear of what would befall them if they don't.
		We should then catch the just man in the act of following the same path as the unjust man on account of the advantage that every nature is led by its very nature to pursue as good, being diverted only by force of law toward the esteem of the equal.
		The only other place where he uses this word is toward the end of the Republic (Republic, X, 612b4 et b5), just before telling the story of Er, to refer the reader, in the conclusion of the discussion on true justice that got started by Glaucon's speech, to "the ring of Gyges".
	plato-dialogues.org /tetra_4/republic/gyges.htm (4394 words)

	Republic Book II
		Glaucon's Aim (358 B) Glaucon wants to know what justice and injustice really are, in the sense of (a), in and for themselves, independent of their consequences.
		Glaucon On The Nature And Origin Of Justice (358 E) Doing an injustice is good, but suffering it is an evil.
		Glaucon goes on to say that what all men really want is to commit injustices and to get away with them.
	www.columbia.edu /~kdc2101/ebz5/cc/republic_book2.htm (2483 words)

	Plato's Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But if anyone should say that being in the complete sense belongs to the work of the carpenter or to that of any other handicraftsman, it seems that he would say what is not true.
		GLAUCON: That would certainly be right, since it is by and in nature that he has made this and all other things.
		GLAUCON: This seem to me the most reasonable designation for him, that he is the imitator of the things which those others produce.
	www3.niu.edu /acad/gunkel/coms547/republic.html (953 words)

	Notes for Lecture
		Now Glaucon takes up the argument, though he is very careful to say that he doesn’t actually agree with it.
		Three kinds of things that are worth seeking: those worth seeking on their own and for other purposes (e.g., knowledge), those worth seeking only on their own (e.g., joy), and those worth seeking for other purposes only (e.g., amputation).
		But now Glaucon suggests that even if there are gods and even if they care about what we do, they can be bought off with sacrifices, prayers, etc.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/ap85/051/lec3.html (934 words)

	lifeissues.net \| Plato's "Royal Lies":
		GLAUCON: What sort of community of women and children is this which is to prevail among our guardians?
		After the prescribed age has been passed, more license is allowed: but all who were born after certain hymeneal festivals at which their parents or grandparents came together must be kept separate.
		SOCRATES: Such is the scheme, Glaucon, according to which the guardians of our State are to have their wives and families in common.
	www.lifeissues.net /writers/irv/irv_69plato2.html (1897 words)

	Plato - Dialogues - The Republic - Book 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The scene is laid in the house of Cephalus at the Piraeus; and the whole dialogue is narrated by Socrates the day after it actually took place to Timaeus Hermocrates, Critias, and a nameless person, who are introduced in the Timaeus.
		Glaucon said: I suppose, since you insist, that we must.
		This latter question need not be further discussed at present; but when Thrasymachus says that the life of the unjust is more advantageous than that of the just, his new statement appears to me to be of a far more serious character.
	www.classicallibrary.org /plato/dialogues/republic/book1.htm (9025 words)

	Vi-IMproved.org
		Glaucon: my term is already set to those settings i think..
		Glaucon: i'd just think it would be annoying have 5 splits, and going forward one, then having to go forward 4 again to get back to the first one
		Glaucon: okay, so I can hide all this stuff, and keep the top line as a comment.
	www.vi-improved.org /tutorial.php (3480 words)

	Storm's Nest - Plato's Cave
		Socrates: Last of all he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in another; and he will contemplate him as he is. Glaucon: Certainly.
		Socrates: He will then proceed to argue that this is he who gives the season and the years, and is the guardian of all that is in the visible world, and in a certain way the cause of all things which he and his fellows have been accustomed to behold?
		Glaucon: Clearly, he said, he would first see the sun and then reason about it.
	home.earthlink.net /~johnrpenner/Articles/PlatosCave.html (731 words)

	The Republic by Plato: Socrates - Glaucon
		This is that strain which is of the intellect only, but which the faculty of sight will nevertheless be found to imitate; for sight, as you may remember, was imagined by us after a while to behold the real animals and stars, and last of all the sun himself.
		Dear Glaucon, I said, you will not be able to follow me here, though I would do my best, and you should behold not an image only but the absolute truth, according to my notion.
		Yes, I said, Glaucon, and of our governesses too; for you must not suppose that what I have been saying applies to men only and not to women as far as their natures can go.
	www.online-literature.com /plato/republic/32 (6291 words)

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