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Plato’s Republic- Books 1 and 2 Book 1 o Socrates talks about injustice and how injustice should not exist and he says “are we to say it is simply speaking the truth and paying whatever debts one has incurred? Or is it sometimes just to do these things, sometimes unjust?” (5) He says the following is nor the definition “to speak the truth and repay what one has borrowed.”

 This was when they went to Polemarchus’s house to talk o Cephalus talks to Socrates about how he never comes to see him and if he was young then he would go, btu his young days are gone o Cehalus’s view of justice is speaking the truth and paying your debts, however Socrates does not think that o Simonides definition of justice is “treating friends well and enemies badly” (7) o To Socrates justice is “the art which gives good to friends and evil to enimies” o They go through a whole bunch of examples of justice and how justice would define in different types of activities o Socrates made 3 arguments against justice o In my opinion I think injustice is when one person get’s their way, but someone else is deprived of that right. o It was clear that the theme for book 1 was injustice and all the different definitions of justice/injustice.  Book 2 o In book two they talk about how if a man had whatever he wanted he would be injustice towards everything else o Socrates believes he can still persuade everyone about the explanation of justice o In a person’s thinking they just care about he worldly objects rather than the things that are actually important o The say that injustice is done involuntarily  I personally don’t believe this because there is no way that you don’t know what the right and wrong thing to do is  The story of Gyges of Lydia is mentioned- shepherd in service of the ruler of Lydia  The use an example of magic rings- one worn by just person and other by unjust  “he would stay on the path of justice, or bring himself to keep away from other      

people’s possessions and not touch them, when he could take whatever he wanted from the marketplace with impunity”(38) Extremes of justice and injustice: Example of clever craftsman

The other side of Glaucon’s argument was about the praise of justice and injustice Example – the fame of a blameless king, and he compares the king to god They talk about how when in a professional area you must only do what you are to do you should do something another profession would Political Justice- city and individual In book two I feel as though he really explains the difference with examples like the example of the rings and the Political Justice....