Glaucon (/ˈɡlɔːkɒn/; Greek: Γλαύκων; c. 445 BC – 4th century BC), son of Ariston, was an ancient Athenian and Plato's older brother. He is primarily known...

it on our nature". It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates and is narrated by the latter. The allegory is...

original of the first book. While visiting Athens's port, Piraeus, with Glaucon, Socrates is invited to join Polemarchus for a dinner and festival. They...

him, married her afterwards, or both. In the recounting of the myth by Glaucon (Plato's older brother, as a character of the Republic), an unnamed ancestor...

Plato as a dialogue between his brother Glaucon and Socrates, and narrated by the latter. Upon being urged by Glaucon to define goodness, a cautious Socrates...

Plato in the Republic (509d–511e). It is written as a dialogue between Glaucon and Socrates, in which the latter further elaborates upon the immediately...

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Perictione had three other children; these were two sons, Adeimantus and Glaucon, and a daughter, Potone, the mother of Speusippus (the nephew and successor...

pleasure. In Book IV, part 4 of the Republic, Socrates and his interlocutors (Glaucon and Adeimantus) are attempting to answer whether the soul is one or made...

by having Socrates explain to Glaucon that the soul must be immortal, and cannot be destroyed. Socrates tells Glaucon the Myth of Er to explain that...

The Republic to the Form of the Good are within the conversation between Glaucon and Socrates (454c–d). When trying to answer such difficult questions pertaining...

The Republic to the Form of the Good are within the conversation between Glaucon and Socrates (454 c–d). When he is trying to answer such difficult questions...

mechanism as Socrates explains to Glaucon how the shadows in the cave are cast. Murdoch becomes more than Glaucon, "He is a Glaucon who comes to realize that...

laying the foundations of Athenian democracy. Plato had two brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, a sister, Potone, and a half brother, Antiphon. There is...

Xenophon, Aeschines, Aristippus, Phaedo, Euclides, Stilpo, Crito, Simon, Glaucon, Simmias, Cebes, Menedemus of Eretria Book 3: Plato Plato Book 4: The Academy...

Charmides (/ˈkɑːrmɪdiːz/; Ancient Greek: Χαρμίδης), son of Glaucon (who was the grandfather of Plato, and not to be confused with his brother of the same...

Macedon which led to the Chremonidean War. Chremonides and his brother, Glaucon, were compelled to flee Athens and take refuge in Egypt. There, Chremonides...

when he read it as an adolescent. In the second book of the Republic, Glaucon recounts the legend of the Ring of Gyges, which posits that, if a man were...

counter the "cynical conclusion" that moral life is chosen by the weak; Glaucon thinks that people are only "good" because they suppose they will be caught...

in Economic Sciences, one of Socrates's interlocutors in the Republic, Glaucon, even goes so far as to say "it would be absurd that a guardian should...

highest level in the analogy of the divided line discussed by Socrates and Glaucon, transcribed by Plato in Plato's Republic Noetics, a fringe branch of parapsychology...

desires. This idea is vividly illustrated in book 2 of the Republic when Glaucon, taking up Thrasymachus' challenge, recounts a myth of the magical ring...

Shweder on cultural anthropology Humean philosophy Platonic philosophy Glaucon and the Ring of Gyges Steven Pinker on human nature (The Blank Slate) E...

grandfather (Critias III): Nails, 106–7. Not all scholars are convinced that the Glaucon mentioned in Symposium is Plato's brother. A small minority of manuscript...

Republic, Glaucon argues that men are inherently unjust, and are only restrained from unjust behavior by the fetters of law and society. In Glaucon's view...

as more cautious, more sober-minded, and less creative than his brother Glaucon, Socrates' other major interlocutor in the last nine books of the Republic...

to Hades, his throat cut by the hands of his sister, the own cousin of Glaucon and Apsyrtus. — Lycophron, Alexandra 805–811 According to Tzetzes, Cassiphone...

to surrender to Antigonus in early 261 BC. Chremonides and his brother Glaucon, who were responsible for the Athenian participation in the war, fled to...

suffering of harm. The concept of the social contract was originally posed by Glaucon, as described by Plato in The Republic, Book II. They say that to do injustice...

archon of the year 644 b.c. She was married to Ariston, and had three sons (Glaucon, Adeimantus, and Plato) and a daughter (Potone). After Ariston's death...