Justice In Plato's Republic

The text Republic by Plato has many different views and themes. Considering what side or how much you have read of it will determined how much you truly understand. Republic consists of ten books, one through seven are just trying to answer the question Socrates asks in book one. What is justice? This question take most of Republic to answer fully. It then turns into a two part question, what is justice in the individual and in the state? By book nine he has answered this quite deeply. Then we have book ten, it’s considered a joke by most people because it somewhat contradicts what Socrates says. Having this long text brings up different opinions to many people. In my opinion I will be arguing three positions from the Republic: might is right,

Does might make right? This is the Glauconian way of life, the guy with the bigger gum always wins. This is one of the Republic views that is presented by Glaucon. This is a quote from (BrainyQuote) to show Plato’s view, “to prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.” This next quote is from (quotationpage) “The greatest penalty of evil doing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.” When does the smaller guy “win”? Or is it always right when you have might? A lot of the time this was the answer to the way of life. I believe to some sort it very much is still around. Being the mightier human shouldn’t give you more power over someone, especially in a civilized society. For example just because in a kingdom a guy like Achilles we will call it is more forceful, doesn’t mean he has power over the others. Just because that one have that power doesn’t mean you can force people, they might listen but it’s not

In the world there is always going to be people that are jealous or not happy with where they are. There’s always going to be that since of accomplishment of going the farthest or higher than the person next to you, to be the best. In Socrates so called ideal state, none of this would happen. I don’t believe that people would accept these roles, or the metal class. This class is described as, when you are born you have a certain metal in you that gives you a certain ranking. Gold, silver and bronze are the rankings within the state. This quote from (GoodReads) show just how the ideal state is set up in Republic, “The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.” This is how the ideal state is impossible to achieve with today’s