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Plato's Republic

the stepping-off place for his analysis of justice and how it is served in and by the state. Plato finds that the common element in these views of justice is that all treat justice as if it were something external, and none have carried the issue into the soul. Plato, on the other hand, makes a direct connection between the microcosm and the macrocosm, between the individual and the state, between the structure of the soul and the structure of the ideal state. The nature of justice in the human soul must be paralleled by the nature of justice in the ideal state. Justice is thus something greater than the state itself and is embodied in the human soul.

Plato implies in this dialogue that justice is not an art in the sense of a technique which can be empirically acquired because it is not a matter of the lesser knowledge, but rather of the greater knowledge which is based on a grasp of principle. Tradition, such as is referred to by Cephalus, is no more than inherited empirical opinion, and it fails in the face of any difficulty. Thrasymachus at first says that justice is whatever the ruler says it is. He is led by Socrates to state that the life of the unjust person is better than the life of a just one, specifically because being unjust is more profitable, but Socrates guides the discussion to a different conclusion

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