Why Is Socrates Unjust

1. What is the difference between a. and a. Both Socrates and Glaucon ultimately agree that it is better to be actually just and seemingly unjust than it is to be actually unjust but seemingly just. Their reasons for holding this position are because people just have control over themselves. They are able to maintain dominion over their desires, to avoid self indulgence in evil desires, and to choose good things. This is something the unjust person loses no matter how just he may seem. Socrates uses the image of a beast to show how injustice causes the inner life to war with the man, but justice orders the inner part and makes it cooperative and docile.

I do find this reasoning in favor of being truly persuasive. I find the life of Gyges morally