Book IX in The Republic by Plato is mainly an argument to prove justice is better than injustice. ... This is the first example that proves justice is better than injustice in Book IX. In the second part of Book IX, The Republic, Socrates provides a second argument for the conclusion that life is better as a just man than as an unjust man. ... This example of the soul provides a conclusion for the main argument, "It is better to be just than unjust" in The Republic. ... In Book IX, The Republic, Plato, the author, is simply trying to conclude his argument and goal of proving justice is wor...

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-(Plato's Republic, Book vii, 518) No scheme of human life was so important to Plato as education. ... It was a positive remedy for the operation of justice in the ideal state. ... He expresses in Republic that the whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, & to do so by directing it to the right objects. ... However education in the Republic is exclusively meant for those who are to become the rulers of the ideal state. ... Through music the soul learns harmony & rhythm, & also a disposition of justice because "he who is harmoniously constituted can never b...

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Philosophers, for example Plato, were believers in Physis. ... There is no such thing as one truth, one justice, and one standard of beauty. ... Justice, for example, may mean one thing to one group of people, while it may mean something entirely different to another group of people. ... Plato agrees with Parmenides in many ways. ... In this sense, Plato is too a rationalist (122). ...

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