Justice Is Worth The Time - 1944 Words

Justice to everyone has different meanings; it can mean fighting for what you think is right, behavior, or equity. Justice is worth the time in and become aware of its self. Justice appeals to human psychology, rather than perceived behavior. As stated in Plato’s Republic â€Å"Well said, Cephalus, I replied; but as concerning justice, what is it? To speak the truth and pay your debts no more than this? And even to this are there not exceptions? Suppose that a friend when in his right mind has deposited arms with me asks for them when he is not in his right mind, ought I to give them back to him? No one would say that I ought always to speak the truth to one who is in his condition.†(Jowett, page 4) Cephalus concludes that justice means paying†¦show more content†¦Justice is useful to the individual and to the state. Justice is useful when they are useless and useless when it is useful. Polemarchus asked Socrates about him, Homer and Simonides agreeing on justi ce as an art and can be practiced to help good people and to harm enemies. Socrates doesn’t agree with that and he still doesn’t give us a good answer of what justice is and how to define it. It’s clear that Socrates is not giving answer of what it is he’s just saying what’s wrong but not right answer. In the text Socrates states, â€Å"Let me first understand you, I replied. Justice, as you say, is the interest of the stronger. What, Thrasymachus, is the meaning of this? You cannot mean to say that because Polydamas, the pancratiast, is stronger than we are, and finds the eating of beef conducive to his bodily strength, that to eat beef is therefore equally for our good who are weaker than he is, and right and just for us?.’(Jowett, page 12) Leading on, Socrates didn’t mean the word stronger as someone who is actually physically strong he meant deep within, someone who is strong minded. Justice is the compliance which subject provid es to their commands, the weaker are commanded to do, not what is for the interest but what is for the injury of the stronger. It is pretty clear through the conversation that Socrates and Thrasymachus were having that they share a mutual dislike