Socrates Exemplifies In The Republic

Socrates vast ideas and political strategies that he exemplifies in the Republic was truly insightful and fascinating to me. His critical arguments and obvious comparative thinking strategies along with his structured ideas of justice, challenges today’s policies. In our contemporary world of politics there is a huge wage gap between our middle and lower class and inequality results from the mixture of injustice and culture influences. The categorizations made in our society, call for the social inequalities we have between classes. Socrates creates a system establishing a unity between the people in his ideal state, and a rather single solution of justice on his moral idea of the good.
Socrates’s whole general idea in his prosperous city,

He bring this question to the surface: what is justice and injustice and how do they differ from one another? He argues that the states justice is the back bone of other virtues: courage, temperance, and wisdom. The existence of a state ultimately is founded on justice, and I must say I agree. In a state where it is correctly set up where the people have the resources at hand, I feel there would be less reasoning for theft and crime. One of the building blocks of his society include merchants to sell goods, so the state will self-sustain and producers not only accommodate for themselves, but also their fellow people. Each person would be selling or buying goods, fueling the economy of the state. Socrates talks about the relative advantage of a strong financial market among the community where, ideally, he would create a class of retail traders and everyone would benefit. I think that is a problem here in the U.S, we are not self-sustained, and we rely on other countries for a plethora of goods. There is also a struggle for employment in certain areas and that itself leads to poverty and despair and mostly to lower class individuals. With Socrates ideals in mind, everyone would have their own jobs and not only wouldn’t feel the need to leave the state, but would feel a sense of purpose to the state itself. “Therefore what they produce at home must be not only enough for themselves, but such both in quantity and quality as to accommodate those from whom their wants are supplied” (Socrates 6). He essentially wants no disproportional happiness throughout classes, he wants to better the state as a whole. I think here in the United States, there should be more individual retailers for purposes of exchange to boost the economy and to better