| Development is something that is a trend | | | | by one of the three parts of the soul. |
| nowadays. Every country is doing everything | | | | The state is form because of the notion that |
| what they can to achieve the so called | | | | man is not self-sufficing and if it happen that |
| development. In The Republic, Plato understands | | | | human is self-sufficing he must be not human but |
| that humans are going through a cycle that from | | | | a beast or a god and, therefore, they are not |
| a primitive society to a well-developed one, then | | | | part of the state. And by forming this state it |
| returning to the original starting point (which is the | | | | may grow larger and larger with many needs are |
| primitive stage of life). The purpose why Plato | | | | at hand. As it grew, there will be a time that it will |
| wrote The Republic is to freeze all society and | | | | come into war because of the struggle of getting |
| prevent change. But how could it happen if change | | | | unlimited wealth. It will lead to the additional of the |
| is the only constant in this world. Could the | | | | members of the community - that is the army. |
| society maintain there lifestyle without changing it | | | | Another class is the Guardians. These are the |
| or develop it? It isolates a human giving them no | | | | ruling class. The qualities of being a guardian, as |
| room for mobility, for example; if he is a farmer, | | | | mentioned in the book, which are necessary to |
| then that is the boundary. The Republic tries to | | | | make a good guardian, are gentleness and high |
| illustrate how justice can be achieved, and how | | | | temper. Aside from these qualities, courage is also |
| Plato illustrates how to achieve it. The Republic is | | | | important. By these qualities, guardians are |
| a dialogue between Socrates, Polymarchus, and | | | | compared to a well-bred dog. Just like the |
| Thrasymachus, and others, who are too many to | | | | well-bred dogs, they are very gentle on the |
| mention, in the house of Cephalus. There | | | | persons that whom they know and fierce to |
| argument is about how would just and right be | | | | strangers. Then, there will be enlargement of the |
| committed, and what is justice? And that lead to | | | | society. By this enlargement of the community |
| the illustration of forming an ideal state, in search | | | | and consideration of comfort may help us to |
| for the definition of justice? | | | | discover how justice and injustice take root. Plato |
| Just and right. These terms may constitute many | | | | tries to put in plain words how the notion of |
| connotations. Its meaning may vary to what it is | | | | justice can be obtain then derive a similar concept |
| in the perception of the beholder. As what | | | | of individual justice. As what the book stated, it is |
| Thrasymachus defines "just" and "right" as nothing | | | | better to make out the nature of justice in the |
| but what is to the interest of the stronger party. | | | | individual if it will be taken in a larger scale. |
| But these concepts are some kind of a term that | | | | It also talks about Philosopher Kings, or rulers are |
| humans cannot ascertain to what these abstract | | | | dominated by striving for wisdom. You cannot be |
| concepts would really mean. As what stated by | | | | a ruler unless you are a philosopher king that they |
| Plato in his book, The Republic, "'right' was what | | | | have the wisdom and knowledge to rule. The |
| good to someone else and 'just' means is serving | | | | souls of these philosophers are more than just |
| the interest of the stronger who rules, at the | | | | the others; it aims to fulfill the desires of the |
| cost of the subject who obeys. | | | | balanced part. They form the class of men to |
| It has 15 chapters. Justice is the main issue in the | | | | possess knowledge. With these basic elements of |
| book. How to attain justice? What is the definition | | | | an ideal society that Plato had installed, it illustrates |
| of justice? These were just some of the question | | | | why men behave justly. In The Republic, it is |
| that Plato draws an answer in The Republic. He | | | | shown how a perfect society ought to behave |
| then illustrates it by the forming of an imaginary | | | | and how will the guardians be trained to achieve |
| state. The imaginary state may consist of three | | | | the so called justice. Plato also explains that the |
| classes of people; producers, that is in charge for | | | | world is divided into two realms; the visible and |
| the sustenance of the society; army, that is in | | | | the intelligible. But only those minds who are |
| charge for the protection of the society; and | | | | trained can grasped the forms, - visible - that is |
| guardians, the ruling class. The imaginary state is | | | | the philosophers. As what he had illustrated, the |
| form in order to trace up where did justice or | | | | basic element of an ideal society, must perform |
| injustice takes place and the quality of justice | | | | its appropriate function (that rulers must rule, |
| may exist in a whole community. Each of the | | | | producers must exercise whatever skills that is |
| social classes of the society is dominated by one | | | | vested to them) to know what justice means. Is |
| of the three parts of the soul. There is a rational | | | | justice well defined? Plato end The Republic by |
| part, spirited part, and appetitive part of the soul. | | | | defining justice as the greatest good. |
| Each of the classes of the society is dominated | | | | |