Can Justice in the State Exist in the Individual? Plato
Date Submitted: 03/09/2003 04:03:54
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 11 pages (3059 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 11 pages (3059 words)
Plato (427-347BC), along with Aristotle, is one of the most influential thinkers in western history, having written numerous works on politics, ethics, and metaphysics - the study of things that transcend the physical world. In The Republic, Plato aims to give an account of the ethical life. Themes such as knowledge, the well-ordered life and wisdom are interwoven into the discussion of the ethical life, however, the principle of justice and the organization of …
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…that kind
3.The character and behavior of a member of that kind is determined by its constitution
And finally that a structural feature of a complex is a feature of its constitution.
Considering Plato's outline for how justice can be attained and found in a state as well as a brief personal discussion of my own view, I can assert to some extent that justice in a city is similar to justice in an individual.
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