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A 5 page paper which examines and critiques
Socrates’ argument concerning justice in Plato’s “The Republic.” No additional sources
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of the individuals banter back and forth in an attempt to define justice. The Republic, like all other works involving Socrates, seems to make analogies of nearly every possible thing
in order to come to some conclusion. But, many of those allegories and approaches present us with ideas that are presumed to be concrete and unquestionable and thus are used
as foundations for the arguments. It is perhaps in that respect that one can argue the most concerning Socrates ideas of justice. In the following paper we examine the use
of souls and God in defining justice, arguing that focusing on the soul and God do not lead us to gain any understanding of what justice is. Socrates
and the Soul Prior to examining the soul and God we must note that Socrates and his listeners have agreed that the best foundation from which they can better define
justice is possessed in the State. That, in itself, is highly arguable for the State is, even through Socrates definition, not a system that can ever be truly just. He
uses that just model of the State to start the arguments concerning the soul, stating the following: "And a State was thought by us to be just when the three
classes in the State severally did their own business; and also thought to be temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain other affections and qualities of these same
classes? And so of the individual; we may assume that he has the same three principles [435c] in his own soul which are found in the State; and he may
be rightly described in the same terms, because he is affected in the same manner?" His listeners agree with him without hesitation, it seems, eager to accept that the
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