In direct contrast, we have an unjust man who appears just. ... Socrates must show that the second man (the unjust man who appears just) does not live well and that the first man (the just man who appears unjust) does live well. ... Socrates himself is exactly such a man: one who is just, but appears unjust. ... In fact Plato will in a sense deduce or derive a just state from a theory of the nature of the soul. ... Plato, however, does not move directly into offering this theory of the nature of the soul. ...

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The book is actually an in-depth recording of a philosophy contest between Plato's teacher Socrates and several other great philosophers. ... Glaucon's brother, Adeimantus, backs up his brother's speech by stating that an unjust man with a deceivably just reputation(which is almost always the trait of the perfectly unjust man) is also better than the just man. ... Therefore, if the following is considered true, then unjust men leads to more unjust men, and then what would happen if unjust men ruled the world. ... So therefore in the end, unjust men would lose. ... Unjust men, ...

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