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D Jacquette - 《Journal of Value Inquiry》 被引量: 17发表: 2001年 Plato's Challenge: the Case against Justice in Republic II Summary This chapter contains section titled: The Situation of Republic II What Kind of Good is Justice? The Origin and Nature of Justice The Tale of Gyges... Chr...
Namely, would a man who owns theRing of Gyges– and, through it, the power to be invisible at will – will find the strength to be moral and just? Socrates’ answer: yes. If the state hasn’t corrupted his innate goodness before that. But, how would the state preserve it? Obviously...
As a result, those who practice justice are doing so involuntarily.If they thought that they could get away with injustice without suffering punishment, they would surely do so. To illustrate this point, Glaucon brings up the myth of theRing of Gyges. This magic ring bestows upon its owner ...
And so, I think the purpose of this passage is not to identify these nations specifically. The name Gog seems to be a reference to an Ancient Near Eastern king from Lydia whose name was Gyges. And I think Ezekiel is using this very brutal warrior as a model of what the future king ...
(Plato also gave us an allegory about the Ring of Gyges, which turns its wearer invisible — sound familiar?). Later philosophers who ponder the nature of existence also seem to stray into weird science fiction territory — like Descartes, raising the notion that he, Descartes, could have ...
(also calledAtlantis) and his daughterCalypso,whose charms almost took Oddyseus away from the land of the living. The name Ogygia (Hy Gyges?) is based upon the greek wordgygas,meaning 'born of Ge (Gaia/Ge – the Earth)', often interpreted as 'Giants' (Gigantes) and possibly linked ...
The Fable of Gyges Ring This situation made me think ofThe Fable of Gyges Ring, from Plato’s Republic. Just to be clear, I don’t normally go around reading things like Plato. I HAD to read it for school years ago (but have to admit it was actually pretty good). The Republic pres...
Gregory Stock, asks a number of questions that don’t have universal answers。 It is meant to aid you in soul searching or self-examination。 A great number of the questions are akin to Ring of Gyges situations, where someone is given a dilemma or problem and has to suss it out。Some...
(also calledAtlantis) and his daughterCalypso,whose charms almost took Oddyseus away from the land of the living. The name Ogygia (Hy Gyges?) is based upon the greek wordgygas,meaning 'born of Ge (Gaia/Ge – the Earth)', often interpreted as 'Giants' (Gigantes) and possibly linked ...