Justice

Today I found that what Socrates said about justice in a nation and in a individual.

Socrates and the other philosophers draw the conclusion that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what is not one's own. The reason is based on what they discussed before. They discussed it is certainly beneficial and proper for a city to let people work for one particular job and not to let him devote energy to another work. So, if he is a farmer, he should provide food for the rest of citizens and spend time and labor to provide food to be shared by them all. Abode all, each of us differs somewhat in nature from the others. On the contrary, if a carpenter attempts to make shoes although this is not him major work, it does not make sense and do have influence to their life in a city.

I may not support the idea raised in the book. However, what they state is that to do their own work in a city is justice and makes the city just.

Misaki