What Are the Wages of Justice? Rethinking the Republic's Division of Goods

A growing number of scholars have seen that the Republic's division of goods includes goods which possess value in virtue of some of their causal effects. Building on this, I argue that goods, including justice, which are valuable (and whose effects can contribute to the value a good has) are so in virtue of a limited class of beneficial effects: those that depend on the recognition of other agents. This way of dividing goods explains why Socrates legitimately invokes some effects of justice in his demonstration that justice is valuable.