Gossips from Ancient Greece: about justice and injustice with Plato

’’The just city is the ideal form of city, in order to solve the issues of an injustice city’’ according to Plato, the author who made Socrate popular through his writings. But...what tells us Socrates about the idea of a just city? What is justice and...what is injustice? Do these two concepts refer to the four virtues? Well, we will find out together through this article!

First and the foremost, Socrate defines this kind of city as one populated by craftsmen, farmers, doctors etc. Basically, a city is a place where people gather and offer help. For Socrate, this gathering represents a city, but not any kind of city! If this settlement is governed only by necessary desires, well we are talking about an idea of Socrates’ healthy city.

Society is varied, we aren't all born alike! It’s obvious that a farmer and a doctor don’t have a lot of things in common, but how about two farmers for example? Although they have the same specialisation, they differ a lot one from each other due to human nature. Every single one of us is built differently, and this thing is absolutely fantastic. It doesn’t matter if the population increases, there is no chance that two people will be exactly the same. Whether we are talking about just a group of people (farmers, for example) or all the people, variety helps the city to develop.

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This article was written following a course held at this club, the first of legal education and philosophy in Romania!

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editorial: Bianca Constantin

graphic design: Ioana Butaru

translation: Bianca Constantin

DP (desktop publishing): Bianca Constantin