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Jessica Cullimore Trinity Term 2005, Week 2 A Discussion of Glaucon's Division of Goods in Book II of Plato's 'Republic' At the beginning of Book II of the Republic, Glaucon decides to pick up where Thrasymachus left off at the end of the first book, continuing the discussion about justice. Glaucon asserts that - in his opinion - there are three types of goods: i) those which are desired for their own sake ii) those which we welcome because of their results iii) those which are onerous but have benefits that we desire Firstly, let us look at the first type of goods which Glaucon mentions: things which we desire purely for their own sake. He gives the examples of "joy" and "harmless pleasures" to represent these types of goods. It is hard to define what joy is, although the majority of people would say that they desire joy and harmless things. After all, no one...

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