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What does Plato say about justice in Republic ? We're not quite sure...it was all Greek to us.
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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature justice Lash me
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What does plato say about justice in republic plate are
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is writing in ancient greece and he is working with
- 00:23
the idea of what a city is and what a
- 00:25
nation is and how to build one And so basically
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- 00:29
he's depicting a dialogue between two of the students including
- 00:33
socrates who you may have heard of and they are
- 00:36
discussing the concept of justice which is more or less
- 00:42
fairness when you do something bad Are you punished for
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it If you do something good or you rewarded for
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it and they're talking about whether or not this is
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the essential principle for life in order to figure this
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out the kind of detour through the whole idea of
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how you would build a city state and the first
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thing is that cities need kind of blue whales and
- 01:03
regulations they need people who have certain jobs and do
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those jobs they need you know ideas of where different
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people are going to live and they need structures so
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that people know what to do all day They are
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basically discussing how a city needs to fulfill its citizens
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basic needs food and housing and clothing and this is
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supposed to be the building blocks of justice although we're
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still not quite there yet Plato thinks a really long
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time to get there What does plato say about justice 00:01:40.619 --> [endTime] in republic
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