History of Political Thought: Plato's Republic — Justice and the Ideal City
How Plato's Republic defines justice by building an ideal city of three classes and mirroring it in the three-part soul.
History of Political Thought · 25 questions
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1. What central question drives Plato's Republic?
- How to run fair elections
- What justice is and whether it pays
- Whether the gods truly exist
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Answer: What justice is and whether it pays
The dialogue asks what justice is and whether the just life is better for the person living it than the unjust one.
2. The Republic's Greek title, Politeia, is closer in meaning to what?
- A city's constitution or way of life
- A state with no king
- An assembly of all citizens
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Answer: A city's constitution or way of life
Politeia means a city's regime or constitution, the whole order of its life; the Latin 'res publica' later gave the misleading English title.
3. Who is the main speaker leading the discussion in the Republic?
- Aristotle
- Pericles
- Socrates
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Answer: Socrates
Plato wrote dialogues, and in the Republic his teacher Socrates questions the others and develops the account of justice.
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