I read the Republic
Political justice as foretold in The Republic In this work that I spent 8 hours on for some reason, I will present an argument using Plato's The Republic in order to explain how the practice of justice can and does arise in a soul. Plato tells us the story of a philosopher named Socrates, who told people to believe in a spirited, divine soul at a time when rhetorical and symbolic debate was the preferred method of communication. He was sentenced to death for "vile corruption of the youth," which showed us how carefully people had to communicate with each other in 399 B.C. By utilizing Socrates' argument about spendthrift drones and the shortcomings of political democracy, I will demonstrate that justice will naturally arise when the soul accepts harmony. Socrates was in a heated debate with Plato. He was arguing for the existence of a shared, divine spirited-stuff 300 years before Christ. You know t...