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The argument in the republic that "justice pays"

Gregory Vlastos
- 07 Nov 1968 - 
- Vol. 65, Iss: 21, pp 665
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This article is published in The Journal of Philosophy.The article was published on 1968-11-07. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Argument & Economic Justice.

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The transformation of Plato's Republic

TL;DR: The Rationally Self-Controlled City is a posthumous publication based on a manuscript originally written by Gordon C. Dickinson in 2012 and then edited by David I. Dickinson.
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The National Science Foundation and philosophy of science's withdrawal from social concerns.

TL;DR: It is argued that the actions at the National Science Foundation went beyond what was required by its senior administrators and are better viewed as part of what drove, rather than as what was being driven by, the adoption of logical empiricism by the philosophy of science community.
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The Happy Philosopher--A Counterexample to Plato's Proof

TL;DR: Sachs as mentioned in this paper argued that in the Republic Plato employs two different notions of justice and happiness, and he went on to charge that Socrates, by failing to connect these two senses of justice, commits the fallacy of irrelevance, for whereas Thrasymachus, Glaucon, et al. have challenged Socrates to prove that the "vulgarly just m a n" is happy, all that Socrates does in fact show is that the 'platonically just m ǫ n'is happy.
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Plato's Analogy of State and Individual: The Republic and the Organic Theory of the State

TL;DR: The real nature of justice and injustice was investigated by Glaucon and Adeimantus as mentioned in this paper, who argued that the search leads through analogy to a monster "organic" state that lives by devouring individual rights.
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Plato's Happy Philosopher and Politics

TL;DR: In the Republic, Glaucon and Adeimantus as mentioned in this paper argued that the philosopher's inability to reason about the relation between justice and happiness is a sign that he lacks a philosophical account of the relationship between justice (dikaiosune) and happiness.