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This 8 page report discusses Adeimantus and Glaucon in The Republic as they try to determine whether or not morality serves as the means to an end. Both of the young men believe people only do what is right under compulsion and that nobody really sees doing good as good for him or her. Instead, they secretly long for the power and the freedom to do as they pleased. No secondary sources.
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many of his contemporaries, believed to be on the very brink of dissolution. With that sort of thinking, it was logical, at least to them, to ponder the true
essence, meaning, and existence of morality. Certainly, no single thought or statement can truly come near a fully explaining the complexity and depth of Plato, his pattern for moralistic theory,
as it relates to the ethics and egoism of morality offers an excellent insight into one specific area of Platos thoughts. In Book
II of The Republic, Plato opens with his characters, the brothers Adeimantus and Glaucon, discussing whether or not morality serves as the means to an end and then moving on
to the idea that if others do not think of a person as moral, that person cannot receive the benefits of the social order that surrounds them. Throughout the writing
of Plato, human psychology is often pictured as the interplay between parts or functions (for instance, between reason and "spirit" or desire). Such a separation appropriately suits the idea of
a comparison between being moral with seeming to be moral. This is not to suggest that the person who seems to be moral may not actually be moral, regardless
of the perceptions of others. It is only the question of whether or not seeming and being are one in the same or whether there is a reward to
morality in and of itself without input from society. For example, central to Platos concerns in The Republic is the question of the
extent to which the personality as a whole (including emotional aspirations and, to some extent, desires) can be shaped by ethical ideals; and the spirited part plays a key
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