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A 4 page paper analyzing the concept of justice as a virtue, and therefore a positive good based on Socrates' arguments presented in Plato's Republic. The writer details Socrates' specific arguments and comments on them analytically. No bibliography.
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the hearer from one point to another, supposedly with irrefutable logic by obtaining agreement to each point before going on to the next, and so building an argument. Early on,
his two young listeners pose the question of whether justice is stronger than injustice, what each does to a man, and what makes the first good and the second bad.
In answering this question, Socrates deals directly with the philosophy of the individuals goodness and virtue, but also ties it to his concept of the perfect state, which is
a republic of three classes of people with a rigid social structure and little in the way of amusement. Although Socrates returns time and again to the concept of justice
in his discourse on the perfect city-state, much of it seems off the original subject. One of his main points, however, is that goodness is doing what is best
for the common, greater good rather than for individual happiness. There is a real sense in which his philosophy turns on the concepts of virtue, and his belief that
ultimately virtue is its own reward. His first major point is that justice is an excellence of character. He then seeks agreement that no excellence is achieved through destructive
means. The function of justice is to improve human nature, which is inherently constructive. Therefore, at a minimum, justice is a form of goodness that cannot be
involved in injuring someones character. Justice, in short, is a virtue, a human excellence. His next point is that acting in accordance with excellence brings happiness. Then he
ties excellence to ones function. His examples are those of the senses -- each sensory organ is excellent if it performs its function, as the eye sees, the ear
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