for ignorance persist among people who refuse to renounce the pleasures and desires of the body and mind. While in their attempt to define Justice, Socrates and Plato bravely disproved many conceivable ideas of Justice raised by Thrasymachus and Glaucon, until they concluded that Justice should possess wisdom, temperance and courage. However, Glaucon’s powerful and more realistic definition of justice remains and grows in today’s modern society. A society in which people are self-interested, dishonest
While Plato’s Republic is most commonly known for its defense of justice, the book also focuses a lot of attention on the importance of a philosophical education and the role that knowledge plays in helping to create and maintain the perfect society. As the dialogue progresses the purpose and explanation of education becomes more advanced and detailed. Socrates, Plato’s mouthpiece in the dialog, begins by describing the guardian’s education as a way to shape their character and properly look after
One example of an external consequence of goodness would extend from Socrates' analogy about borrowing a weapon from a friend, then refusing to return it, when it seems obvious that the friend is no longer in the right state of mind. "But speaking of that thing