![]() “proofs” that it is always better to be just than Socrates in Books Eight and Nine finally delivers three The just city and the just human being as he has sketched them are inįact good and are in principle possible. Through Seven, he addresses this challenge, arguing (in effect) that Socrates is finally close to answering the question after heĬharacterizes justice as a personal virtue at the end of Book Four,īut he is interrupted and challenged to defend some of the moreĬontroversial features of the good city he has sketched. Good city would be just and that defining justice as a virtue of aĬity would help to define justice as a virtue of a human being. Way around, sketching an account of a good city on the grounds that a ![]() ![]() To answer the question, Socrates takes a long This question, and Glaucon and Adeimantus make it explicit at theīeginning of Book Two. Plato’s Republic centers on a simple question: is it alwaysīetter to be just than unjust? The puzzles in Book One prepare for ![]()
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