What is Justice?
What is justice? Well, many seem to think that they know the answer to this. No one had a better understanding of what justice was and what constituted a just life than Plato and Socrates. After reading his famous book, The Republic, it left me confused, yet well educated on what Plato thought was justice. Philosophers say this book could possibly be the single most important philosophical books of Western Tradition. Plato believed that there is more need for abstract thought than concrete thought. He proposes that there were two worlds the real world and the world of ideas (forms). Justice could mean many different things to many different people. Although philosophers are more recognizable with the workings of a city than a soul, they tried to define justice by creating the ideal city which they named Kallipolis. In this ideal city, the philosophers believed that each citizen will do the task that is best suited to him or her. Socrates then examines these......
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