justice and injustice
In The Republic, Plato attempts to demonstrate through the character and discourse of
Socrates that justice is better than justice is the good which men must strive for, regardless
of whether they could be unjust and still be rewarded. His method is to use dialectic, the
asking and answering of questions which led the hearer from one point to another,
supposedly with irrefutable logic by obtaining agreement to each point before going on to
the …
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…on equating things on
to the next in a chain that eventually leads back to the original proposition. But the logic
of these connections seems built more on assumptions than on objective truth. This is in
keeping with his stance that ultimately what he says is right is right because he is a
philosopher, and therefore is by his nature right. The dialectic seems more of a game to
get the hearer to go along
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