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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At several points, the Politics looks back to the conception of the highest human good worked out in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the concluding chapter of the Nicomachean Ethics (X.9) looks forward to the Politics, culminating in a list of questions about political systems which corresponds reasonably well to the questions he addresses in the Politics, as the following chart indicates: Outline of the Politics Questions in Nicomachean Ethics X.9.1181b17-24 Book I: types of communities: the city, the household; household management Book II: critical survey of proposed and actual constitutio...

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Plato expresses in the "Republic- that a person and later a state must aim to achieve the four principal virtues. ... If two men, one just and the other unjust, possess a ring that would make them invisible when warn and allow them to do as they please without detection, the two men, both the just and unjust alike, will seize the opportunity to be unjust unless he is a simpleton. ... It is only through the formulation of this hypothetical "ideal city- that he can arrive at a definition of justice, for to Plato, being the product of tumultuous, has little faith in virtues of mankind; only i...

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