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Please answer discussion questions ..ooo Sprint 10:58 PM The Shepherd Gyges: "...- Our reading discusses the issue of taking things that don't belong to us beginning on page 17. This connects with a story from one of Plato's most important works, the Republic. Here is the setting: The philosopher Socrates and two friends are discussing three types of pursuits in life. 1. Things we enjoy for their own sake, like playing a simple game, perhaps. 2. Things that are enjoyable and have good consequences, like playing a sport, which is fun and gives me some exercise. 3. Things that are disagreeable but which we put up with because they have rewards, like working at some dreary job just to get a paycheck. What does this have to do with ethics? Well, Socrates' friend asks him under which category he would place "justice" (or being good). Socrates says that being good belongs in the second class, because it is pleasant in its own right, and because it has good consequences insofar as it makes the world a better place. Now Glaucon, playing devil's advocate, says to Socrates that he would like to believe that's true, but he suspects that much of the time people are good, not because they enjoy it, but because they have to
Explanation / Answer
The Ring of Gyges is a mythical magical artifact mentioned by the philosopher Plato in Book 2 of his Republic.
Glaucon posits:
—Plato, Republic, 360b–d (Jowett trans.)
Conclusion: