what is Plato theory of justice with in 100 words
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Plato uses the analogy of large letters to begin. If a person is asked to read small letters from a distance, he may not make them out easily. But if the same person is now shown the same letters in large and bold font, he will understand them better. And when he again tries to read the small letters now, it becomes more clear to him. Plato says that letters that are large and bold are understood clearly and they will help in understanding small letters easily. In a similar manner, the idea of justice can be better understood first from the point of a state and then applied to the individual. This is because Plato believed that ‘State is the individual writ large’.
He says that a first political community came into existence, when a farmer, a craftsman, a blacksmith came together. They realize that each of them cannot fulfill their own needs, but can mutually benefit each other from their own skills. That meant a farmer produced crops for himself along with other non farmers, a blacksmith made tools for others and so on. This lead to specialization of their work and later exchange of goods and services each of them specialized.
As such communities grew further, and needs also grew accordingly, there arose conflict between communities. Protection of this city states against external attack and maintaining of law and order internally became necessary. Thus emerged a new class of people called guardians. Again, among the guardians the people with higher intellect were to be the rulers of the city state.
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Accordingly, Socrates defines justice as "working at that to which he is naturally best suited", and "to do one's own business and not to be a busybody" (433a–433b) and goes on to say that justice sustains and perfects the other three cardinal virtues: Temperance, Wisdom, and Courage, and that justice is the cause
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