Justice In The Republic

Some Thoughts on the question of Justice The nature of justice was a major theme in the republic and Socrates define what the nature of justice is. Socrates scrutinizes the nature of justice in both the individual and the city. In the republic, he links justice with the human soul structure and the social structures of the city. Justice in the individual is said to be when the rational soul controls both the emotions and the appetitive soul. That individual will be classified as a just person and will be just in anything the individual is involved in. He goes further to say that each inhabitant of the city are just if each and everyone goes about his vocation without any interferences. So the fact that each citizen is engaging in his specialized vocation is justly attributed He explains that Just is the rational part of the soul and it presides over the individual whilst the rational part of a city which are the philosopher and the guardians, should preside over the warriors and et cetera. I will be examining some of the arguments of justice made the republic. Thrasymachus makes a case that human beings are full of ego and arrogance coupled with being power-driven creatures. He goes further to say when we power driven are placed in a position of power over others,

The quest of justice in society produces a clarification of the natural needs of the individual within the far- reaching context of the society. The republic states that Plato affirms that it is only when an individual is placed in a far-reaching context of the society that the question of “what is just/Justice comes to mind. The society or public is the individual “written in larger lettering” (The Republic 368). When the society is seen as whole is only when the society can function effectively as one. “Society originates...because the individual is not self-sufficient but has many needs which he can’t supply himself” (The Republic