... . Socrates holds that the principal virtue for man is justice or his sense of justice. He believes that temperance, wisdom and knowledge balanced equally together create harmony which then produces justice. The subject matter of the "Republic- is the nature of justice and it's relation to human existence. Book I of the "republic- contains a critical examination of the nature and virtue of justice. Socrates engages in a dialectic with Thrasymachus ... an argument that it is more rewarding to appear to be just than to be just for the sake of justice. Glaucon tells the myth of the ring. If ...

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