He maintains that the teaches unity which, when applied on a grand scale, can lead to justice but that the unity of private families will only lead to unjust favoring of one's kin and to factionalism that is inherently unjust.  ... First, if one were to follow Plato's logic and assume that everyone will truly treat everyone else in the city as a family member then initial reasoning for why a family is unjust will still hold true but now it will be on a far grander scale. ... By Plato's definition, such favoring  would be considered  terribly unj...

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Understanding the forms is what is most important for Plato. ... Others would say it is very unjust to testify against the one who is responsible for your being. Euthyphro's action could be considered both just and unjust. ... For the same reason that a pen sitting by itself can be considered both long and short, Euthyphro's actions can be just and unjust. ... I generally have to agree with Plato. ...

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Plato's focus was on the idea of a thing as its highest reality. ... Plato believes society faces an ignorance problem. ... Then the just is like the wise and good, and the unjust like the evil and ignorant? ... Then the just has turned out to be wise and good and the unjust evil and ignorant.... " Plato says the solution to the problem in society is education. ...

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In direct contrast, we have an unjust man who appears just. ... Socrates must show that the second man (the unjust man who appears just) does not live well and that the first man (the just man who appears unjust) does live well. ... Socrates himself is exactly such a man: one who is just, but appears unjust. ... In fact Plato will in a sense deduce or derive a just state from a theory of the nature of the soul. ... Plato, however, does not move directly into offering this theory of the nature of the soul. ...

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Justice is the underlining truth in the Republic of Plato. ... Socrates spent a great deal of his life seeking out the "truth- and definitions of question that would universally answer the notion of right and wrong; virtuous and immoral; just and unjust. ... His quest was abruptly ended because of an unjust decision by a supposedly just society. ... However, the ideal constitution Plato proposes to ward off the slide into democracy and despotism is fraught with theoretical problems that make it thoroughly unjust and virtually incapable of producing a flawlessly just and otherwise virt...

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If so, what morals are just and what morals are unjust? ... To be truly unjust, he or she would have to fool everyone into thinking, the unjust will live a better life and be remembered better. ... The philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and St. ... Plato's philosophy assumes that God exists as a supremely good being whose goodness is analogous to Plato's concrete concept or the ultimate good. However, God and goodness are not one and the same; Plato does not directly state that goodness is good, but that God is good, since he exemplifies the id...

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Plato firstly examines the virtues, characteristics of excellence, through social classes, needed to obtain a just state. ... Plato defines a justice as: "minding one's own business, and not being a busybody." ... Furthermore, Plato defines injustice as: "Meddling among the classes would most correctly be called extreme evil-doing." ... Unjust individuals would attempt to transform from one class to another, in doing so they would not be ruled by their reason, and would lead to the destruction of the state. Furthermore, Plato relates justice and injustice to every individual throughou...

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-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... Spartan Influence on Plato's Scheme of Education: In his scheme of education Plato was greatly influenced by Spartan system of education. ... Plato's Theory of Education: Plato sees in education the only true way to the permanent stability of the state. ... Through music the soul learns harmony & rhythm, & also a disposition of justice because "he who is harmoniously constituted can never be unjust". ... Plato also felt the necessity of moral education. ...

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Like Plato, Martin Luther King talks about using your knowledge as good or evil. ... He states in Letter from Birmingham Jail that: "There are just and unjust laws, a unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself. ... King goes on give more examples of just and unjust laws. ... Plato and King believed people were born with the true knowledge of forms/ideas. ... Plato and Dr. ...

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The desire for having power is what keeps these people trapped in an unjust world. ... As he said " I do not believe that the law of God permits a better man to be harmed by a worse I believe that it is far worse to do what he is doing now, trying to put a man to death unjustly" (Plato, AP. ... After all if he died he will not continue to suffer in an unjust world, instead the ones that stay will continue to suffer. ... In Plato's "Apology" we learn that Socrates admits being wise since he's aware of his "ignorance". ... (Plato, Ap. ...

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Plato defines these just rulers as the philosopher kings. ... This is where Plato is flawed in his theory of decaying constitutions. ... How is it that Plato can place into his discussion a man that lives in an unjust city? ... What is Plato's purpose in creating this ideal state? ... Maybe these flaws did not go unnoticed by Plato. ...

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Plato and Dr. ... If he were to break the laws, or act out against them, he would be considered unjust himself. ... Any law that degrades human personality is unjust". ... King & Plato presents itself. ... Plato firmly advocates dialogue in all situations. ...

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Book IX in The Republic by Plato is mainly an argument to prove justice is better than injustice. ... This example proves the just man happier than the unjust man Using this example, the unjust man is clearly worse off than the just man. ... This unjust man has also let his human being become starved and weak. ... In complete opposite to the unjust man, the just man is living a happy life. ... In Book IX, The Republic, Plato, the author, is simply trying to conclude his argument and goal of proving justice is worthwhile and rewarding. ...

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There are three questions that must be answered when talking about the tyrant that is described in Plato's "Republic-. ... He asked Socrates to prove that a man who leads a just life, with none of the rewards that come with being just, would live a happier life than a man who lives an unjust life, with all the benefits of being just, and none of the disadvantages of being unjust. This breaks down to a question of, is a philosophers life (just) better than a tyrants life (unjust). ... In my own opinion I feel Socrates or Plato, whichever is really talking, is persuasive for reasons othe...

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The ancient Greek philosopher was determined to accept his unjust fate with dignity. ... Socrates quest for justice was written in the form of a dialogue by his student Plato, in Plato's Republic. ... In Plato's ideal society justice ruled. ... He believes that anyone will be unjust, given the opportunity. ... The four reforms that Plato feels are needed are: The Equality of Women- Plato realizes that the most knowledgible person could possibly be a woman. ...

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Plato was, as we know, both pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. ... Plato learned a great deal from his teacher, and his trial unjust execution alike both influenced Plato's works, and, indeed, make up three of his greatest known dialogues: The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito. ... The Republic is about Plato's ideal form of a republic. ... Plato opened his school, Akademia, in Athens around 387 B.C.E. ... The war demolished the Academy that plato founded. ...

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He spent twenty years studying and working at Plato's Academy. Plato was an influential philosopher and scholar that made a tremendous impact on Aristotle. Many of Plato's ideologies were presented in Aristotle's works. ... So what was meant by just and unjust? ... What might have been unjust to some might not have been considered unjust to others. ...

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Socrates was a sort of bridge to Plato and Aristotle. ... He disproves Polemarchus" statement that justice is treating friends well and enemies badly by determining that harming someone would make them live more unjustly. Therefore, harming someone, even your enemy, would be unjust because it creates more injustice. ... By imagination, Plato means shadows and reflections. ... Just as Plato was a student of Socrates, Aristotle was a student of Plato. ...

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Xenophon where there are certain differences between Plato and he, I would like to highlight one of these differences. Plato considered supreme wisdom Socrates and Xenophon superior moral mind to admit that I knew nothing. ... Your safety before death dictates touted by double unjust accusation and even some illogical point leaves a taste in which he reader encounters the dilemma of why accepting a death sentence.  With regard to this argument, deduced by first instance Socrates to be wise and moral man, rather die following the law to live against her and her same ideology, but it is not kn...

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David Thoreau would unarguably agree with Plato's quote. ... If people obeyed all laws, they would tend to do unjust things. ... Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience also accuses the government of being unjust. ... The tax collector needs to stop serving the unjust government. ... Socrates is clearly criticizing politicians of being unjust. ...

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Plato's composite of this encounter is detailed in Crito. ... Especially, to a reader who has recently read Socrates" eloquent speech on behalf of his innocence, as related by Plato, in The Apology. Why, we ask, might Socrates seem eager to accept his unjust punishment, accorded by unjust men, in this the most unjust of situations? ... Remember from Plato's recounting of Socrates" trial in The Apology, that Socrates is divinely bound to approach strangers on the street to challenge their worldly notions. ... Against a philosophical wall, Socrates (or rather Plato) is forced to const...

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Keeping this in mind, we are not really sure where the ideals of Socrates stop and those of Plato begin. ... We can see how he views the State and the individual in Plato's Crito. ... He believed that the will of the State must not be ignored; it could however be proven wrong or unjust. But it is a delicate thing to prove a "state- unjust and not destroy it. And in the case of Socrates, he believed that the "state- was not unjust. ...

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Socrates and MLK Jr. both dealt with the question, "Is it just to break an unjust law?" In Plato's Crito and MLK Jr.'... Neither man used violence in his means of showing his dislike for certain unjust laws and yet both were punished for their actions and beliefs. ... Socrates does not even think he has disobeyed a law in the first place and MLK Jr. consciously disobeys those laws he thinks to be unjust. ... MLK Jr. stresses that if the minority has no part in devising the law, then it is unjust and should not have to be followed. ...

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From what we learn of him in Plato does Socrates offer a philosophy that is genuinely progressive and radical in its wish to reform the society of the day? ... I will rely on two of Plato's works in my argument, The Apology and The Crito. ... Socrates states the importance of standing by his previous reasoning (no unjust acts). He believes it is his social duty to accept his punishment, be it unjust or just. ...

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I will use the principles of Kant, Bentham/Mill, and Plato to help show why some particular sexist and racist actions are wrong or unjust. ... According to the philosopher Plato, he defines justice as treating equals equally and unequals unequally. ... I think this fits well with Plato's definition of justice because an unequal was treated unequally even though he was black he couldn't help the fact that it made him an unequal individual. ... This shows that an unequal was treated unequally based on their sex and that's exactly how Plato described what justice is. ...

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