ses do. What all human beings aim at as the ultimate good is pleasure:
Obviously, according to Callicles, it is only pleasure--the sensual pleasures of food, drink, sex. Having as many as possible of these, conceived of as separate, discrete forms of enjoyment, is what any enlightened man aims at (Jones 70).
Plato believes that there is an objective truth and an objective justice. The concept of natural law was first developed in the Greek world and has been carried through to the present day. There are a number of different approaches to this concept. The Graeco-Roman tradition held that there was a natural law that was accessible to mankind through reason. Plato is seen as a rationalist in that he finds the good, the beautiful, and the just all contained in the true, in what can be deduced or distilled from experience by pure reason:
Thus the vision he gives us of the politic
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