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Often appears with: three classes of goods · public reputation · pleasure, pain, and the good life · justice praised for itself · justice as a virtue
Usually: dialogue (1) · detachment (1)
Glaucon pushes back, asking whether being just is better than being unjust in itself, not just for rewards; he classifies goods into harmless pleasures, instrumental results, and disagreeable reward-driven goods.
With these words I was thinking that I had made an end of the discussion; but the end, in truth, proved to be only a beginning. For Glaucon, who is always the most pugnacious of men, was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus’ retirement; he wanted to have the battle out. So he said to me: Socrates, do you wish really to persuade us, or only to seem to have persuaded us, that to be just is always better than to be unjust? I s…