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Plato And Justice

Plato (who speaks through Socrates) seperates people based on their innate strength, intelligence, and courage. Those who are not overly bright, or strong, or brave, are best suited to various productive jobs such as: building, farming, and smithing. Those who are bright, strong and especially courageous are suited to defensive and policing professions. Those who are extraordinarily intelligent, virtuous and brave are suited to run the state itself; that is, Plato�s ideal state is an aristocracy, a Greek word that means �rule by the best.� The lower end of human society, which as far as Plato is concerned, consists of an overwhelming majority of people in a state, he calls the ...

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do not obey one of the higher groups. A state may be said to be just if the Auxiliaries do not simply obey the guardians, but enjoy doing so, that is, they don�t grumble about the authority being exercised over them; a state with �ordinary justice� would require that the Producers not only obey the Auxiliaries and Guardians, but that they do so willingly. Ordinary justice is basically the morality in the community or �outer morality.� But to achieve this �outer morality� They must have �inner morality� which is morality in an individual or �psychic harmony.�
Later Plato identifies the intellect with the Guardians, the spirit of emotions with the Auxiliaries and the bodily appetites with the Producers. Therefore, an individual is courageous if his or her spirit is courageous and individual is wise if his or her intellect is wise. Temperance occurs when the emotions are ruled over by the intellect, and the bodily appetites are ruled over by the emotions and especially the ...

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Added: 6/18/2004 02:53:49 AM
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