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What Is Justice In Plato's Republic?

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Philosophy is the science that possess many branches such as ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, physiology, epistemology and etc. nevertheless philosophy possess also politics which call political philosophy. Insofar Plato was one of the first philosophers and one of the first western thinkers who was student of Socrates and his influence on him for such a reason like that Plato discourse and wrote Socratic “Dialogues” in his book The Republic. The Republic contain number of subjects such as politics, education, psychology, epistemology, theory of virtue or the good life, justice, religion, aesthetics, and etc. In addition, Plato was in a high class family who had a political activities he was born in 428 B.C his father died during his childhood period, he had two brothers and one sister. However, after the death of his teacher and best friend Socrates by the authority at that time he left Athens and went …show more content…

Let’s be clear that Plato’s main point was the ideal state and the first step towards this imaginary state is justice, the central position of the book one is all about justice in a dialogical way. Also he was trying to find the answer for what is justice? When Socratic try to find the justice it was the ideal justice. The use of word justice in Plato’s republic has grown dramatically throughout conversations. Three definition of justice first comes from the old man Cephalus which says justice is to tell the truth, and return what you own even if it’s your enemy, you have to return what you borrowed from him. In constant Socrates doesn’t agreed with Cephalus because Cephalus was an old man and had a lot of money which argued that by returning money to those people that you own them then you can maintain justice and go to the heaven (at that time the ancient Athens belived that if you do good you will go to heaven otherwise you will go to

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