Plato Justice And Injustice Analysis
Mahfuzul Islam Period 4
Western Political Theory Mr. Polazzo
Injustice in our Society and in Ourselves What is justice is a question that has plagued philosophers since the time of Plato when he wrote The Republic to present day. In the book, Plato uses the dialectic, between Socrates and other Athenians like Polemarchus, Cephalus, and Glacuon, to try and find the definition of justice. Through the voice of Glaucon, Plato defines justice as a compromise of sorts between advantage and fear, and injustice as the things that we wouldn’t …show more content…
In my opinion, it should be abolished because doing an unjust thing to an unjust man does not make that thing justified. Murder is an unjust act because, based off of Glaucon’s definition of injustice, a healthy and sane person would never intentionally want someone else to kill them on purpose which means that society considers murder unjust. That is why, it should not go around killing people on purpose because by doing so it joins the ranks of criminals. In a way it is also kind of ironic because humanity calls murderers the “scum of society”, yet it thinks that by executing them it is a “hero”. However, people are judged by their actions, and killing another human being is about as profound as actions come. The death penalty is a lot like injustice because people want to commit injustices, but they don’t want unjust things done to them, which is like people wanting other people to be executed, but if they were the ones that were being killed then they wouldn’t want it. Whichever way you look at it, killing another human isn't humane, not even close, and when you get into the details it is simply vengeful and …show more content…
The tyrant, who is also the most unjust man, is the least happy, but the aristocrat, the most just man, is the most happy, which shows that it pays to be just. In turn, Socrates comes up with his own definition of justice where, just like the ideal society, the just man has to balance the rational part of his soul, the spirited part of his soul, and the appetitive part of his soul. The problem, though, is that with this definition, the hoi polloi of America is
Western Political Theory Mr. Polazzo
Injustice in our Society and in Ourselves What is justice is a question that has plagued philosophers since the time of Plato when he wrote The Republic to present day. In the book, Plato uses the dialectic, between Socrates and other Athenians like Polemarchus, Cephalus, and Glacuon, to try and find the definition of justice. Through the voice of Glaucon, Plato defines justice as a compromise of sorts between advantage and fear, and injustice as the things that we wouldn’t …show more content…
In my opinion, it should be abolished because doing an unjust thing to an unjust man does not make that thing justified. Murder is an unjust act because, based off of Glaucon’s definition of injustice, a healthy and sane person would never intentionally want someone else to kill them on purpose which means that society considers murder unjust. That is why, it should not go around killing people on purpose because by doing so it joins the ranks of criminals. In a way it is also kind of ironic because humanity calls murderers the “scum of society”, yet it thinks that by executing them it is a “hero”. However, people are judged by their actions, and killing another human being is about as profound as actions come. The death penalty is a lot like injustice because people want to commit injustices, but they don’t want unjust things done to them, which is like people wanting other people to be executed, but if they were the ones that were being killed then they wouldn’t want it. Whichever way you look at it, killing another human isn't humane, not even close, and when you get into the details it is simply vengeful and …show more content…
The tyrant, who is also the most unjust man, is the least happy, but the aristocrat, the most just man, is the most happy, which shows that it pays to be just. In turn, Socrates comes up with his own definition of justice where, just like the ideal society, the just man has to balance the rational part of his soul, the spirited part of his soul, and the appetitive part of his soul. The problem, though, is that with this definition, the hoi polloi of America is