Book 2 in the Republic

Today, I'm showing you the content of Book 2 in the Republic.

Related to the last blog about "Book 2 in The Republic", we found that some philosophers, especially Adeimantus, believe and tries to conceive Socrates that "No one is just willingly. Through cowardice or old age or some other weakness, people do indeed object to injustice. But it is obvious that they do so only because they lack the power to do injustice." Continuously, Adeimantus do demand Socrates to demonstrate "How justice - because of its very self - benefit its possessor, and how injustice harm him." He emphasizes he doesn't need to hear "justice is stronger than injustice."

For his request, Socrates plans to argue justice associated with cities in order to find out if the larger entity is similar in form to the smaller one.

For the next discussion between Socrates and Adeimantus, they think over why a city come about and why justice and injustice come to exist in a city.

See you,

Misaki