EDUCATION |
PHILOSOPHY | ETHICS
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PLATO'S REPUBLIC, BOOKS ONE & TWO Book One presents a discussion of the nature of justice by Socrates, the aging Cephalus, his son Polemarchus, and the sophist Thrasymachus. In Book Two, Plato's brothers challenge Socrates to convince them that a just life is preferable to an unjust life with power, fame, and riches. Their analysis of economic and political reality introduces the division of labor, the origin of war, a common currency, and basic principles for educating the young. "You are so far off in your ideas about justice and injustice,
Socrates, you don't even know that justice really serves the interest
of the ruler, the one who is stronger, at the expense of the weaker. Justice
is for those who are simpleminded." |
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