THE BOOK OF THE REPUBLIC
The Book The Republic of Plato is a debate in which Socrates is the interlocutor represents the Platonic pestiness. The title of this book can confuse us, not equivocal republic. Plato tries to manufacture an ideal state. Explain how the state should be for the neutral sea. Now, a state will only be fair if your citizens are. This is where we enter the subject of dialogue: justice, both in each person who lives in the city, and the city itself. To define justice in the human being, invented, first, in the same state. Following the Socratic moral intellectualism, Plato is convinced that justice is achieved through education.
The two myths that are used in the educational process, and in experience. First book of the Republic The dialogue begins by presenting Socrates and Glaucon in the Pyrenees after attending the parties of the goddess Bendis or Athena. In the city he meets Polemarco, who was accompanied by Adimanto, Polemarco invites Socrates to his house and accepts. Where we are? What can be done? What is your opinion?? What is your opinion?? What do you think about old age? The old man, content, wealth has its advantages. But that it is not the question of wealth or poverty, the concern of men, but the awareness of having been fair or unfair during their life. Socrates exposes: ‘But is it typical of justice making it simply consist of telling the truth? Or is it not fair or unfair according to the circumstances ?, At this time Polemarco appears. After an extensive Socratic dialogPrecise and clear response, Socrates surprised tells him that he has a definition that it is justice, of his opinion.
According to Trasimaco, some cities are governed by tyrannies, democracies and aristocracies and that this has the power of the laws that agree to each one. Justice is no more convenient. Socrates performs his analysis and draws in the conclusion through several more examples of transimarc, that no one who has a government, in terms of a ruler orders the convenient for himself, but what is convenient for the governed. Transimar and angry answers justice is practiced for the benefit of oneself. In addition to his opinion, injustice is wisdom and virtue. After a long discussion of incoherence Socrates concluded that I only knew that I didn’t know anything.
Consequently, "not knowing what justice is, I cannot know whether or not it is a virtue,". These are the words and conclusions that led Socrates to talk about justice, finally in the conversation a clear description of what justice symbolizes for each other is not reached. Second Book of the Republic.
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