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Plato | The Ring of Gyges
In this excerpt from the dialogue The Republic, Glaucon and Socrates discuss the nature and origin of justice. Glaucon defends injustice, illustrating his argument with the legend of Gyges, to play devil's advocate and force Socrates to explain why people would voluntarily choose to be just.
-The traditional view of the nature and origin of justice at the time was that people came to agree on mutually acceptable
Fovea
A small depression in the retina of the eye where visual acuity is highest due to the highest concentration of cones.
Letters
Written or printed characters used to represent sounds in a language system.
Saccade
A rapid movement of the eye between fixation points, often occurring when the gaze shifts from one object to another.
Deep Structure
In linguistics, an underlying syntactical structure that can be represented in the surface structure in different ways, shaping sentence meaning.
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