Justice is the underlining truth in the Republic of Plato. ... (R, p. 128-129) Plato's conceptions of justice are very specific. ... Throughout the Republic Plato mentions the structure of every man's soul and how it ultimately has power over the individual. ... It is hard for me to believe the potency of the "Good- in Plato's ideal Republic when it does not even have the effectiveness to initiate it own structure. ... Plato tries to control the soul of man with his Republic, but fails to recognize that man's nature cannot be restrained to the point of he...

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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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In addition to this, Plato made several visits to the Roman republic, specifically, the city of Syracuse. ... The Apology later became the basis and initial foundations for Plato's meditations on the true definition of justice. Plato's pinnacle piece is The Republic, his own meditations and thoughts on what justice truly is. ... The Republic is about Plato's ideal form of a republic. ... Plato's republic assigned individuals to careers by way of education. ...

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In his introduction to Plato's The Republic, Desmond Lee refers to Plato Socrates and Aristotle as the founders of the intellectual tradition of the West. ... Martin Bernal (Bernal, 1989) in his Black Athena likens Plato's republic to the Egyptian State form, he examines the similarities of Plato's writings and states "The only reason for doubting that the Republic was based on Egypt is the fact that he does not say so in the text" emphasizing the similarities. ... Ma'at is also viewed in philosophy, perfection of knowledge, morality of truth and justice and the metaphysic...

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First of all, Plato would have his guardians feel no attachment to those around them whereas Confucius emphasizes the importance of relationships with family and friends. ... In The Republic, the philosophers are supposed to not know what suffering is so that when they are sent into battle, there is no chance of them becoming cowardly. ... Socrates or one of his followers would probably argue that since the philosopher kings ruled and by definition philosophers knew all about justice and the forms of goodness, that they would be infallible in their decisions. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate