Those who have power have control over those who have nothing and thus take advantage of them. ... To Socrates pursuing a just life gave him happiness, the freedom to express the truth with out feeling afraid of what was to happen, because he was on the side of justice. ... (Lecture notes) In the Republic knowledge, justice and beauty are meaningless, there is something higher and that is "The Shape of the Good", without the shape of the good there wouldn't be knowledge and we need knowledge in order to pursue justice. With out knowledge we wouldn't be able to see what the...

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