Eric GoodfieldPlato’s Republic and the Ideal City of the Mind

-Thrasymachus: “Justice is nothing else than

the interest of the stronger”

-The purity of the castes is to be preserved at

all costs in “that there is nothing which they

should so anxiously guard, or of which they

are to be such good guardians, as of the purity

of the race.”

-Purpose of the guardians is “the greatest

happiness of the whole.”

-it is only with the “meddlesomeness …and

interference” of the inferior in the “rising up

of a part of the soul against the whole” … that

the soul is rended into corruption and

deformity.

-Justice in the soul as in the state means that

“each part of him is doing its own business,

whether in ruling or being ruled.”

-Where “all [are] of one opinion about what is

near and dear to them, …they all tend towards

a common end.”

-“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings

and princes of this world have the spirit and

power of philosophy, and political greatness

and wisdom meet in one, cities will never

have rest from their evils.”

The Allegory of the Cave

Source: http://dev.classicalwisdom.com/pursuit-good/

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