He then asks Socrates in which of the three classes he would place justice.

In the second class, replies Socrates, among goods desirable for themselves and also for their results.

'Then the world in general are of another mind, for they say that justice belongs to the troublesome class of goods which are desirable for their results only.

Socrates answers that this is the doctrine of Thrasymachus which he rejects.

Glaucon thinks that Thrasymachus was too ready to listen to the voice of the charmer, and proposes to consider the nature of justice and injustice in themselves and apart from the results and rewards of them which the world is always dinning in his ears.