
R4 Hogwarts and Kallipolis | Plato's Republic, book 4
Ancient Greece Declassified
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Socrates, Justice, Wisdom, Courage and Courage
Socrates asks his companions to look for the virtue of justice in an ideal society. They identify wisdom, courage, temperance and justice but still don't see it. Socrates then suggests that justice is simply what happens when all three classes do their own jobs at once. The idea here is that these four cardinal virtues together are supposed to encompass totality of human excellence.
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