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R4 Hogwarts and Kallipolis | Plato's Republic, book 4

Ancient Greece Declassified

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The New Definition of Political Justice

The first new definition of justice since the various proposals that were rejected way back in book one. The defining feature of a just state is that everyone in it minds their own business, plato proposes. And if the auxiliaries do theirs, boom, that's courage. If the producers agree with the rulers and Auxiliaries on who should rule, that's temperance. So that is the definition of political justice offered in the republic. That's the justice of calypolus.

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