... wanted to find an answer to. According to the American Heritage Dictionary justice is the quality of being just and fair; the principle of moral rightness; conformity to moral rightness in action or attitude; righteousness. It's easy for me to open up a book and read the definition of justice. But Socrates did not do that. Instead he sought after it. He went and asked ... Socrates with a myth. "We would catch the just man red-handed going the same way as the unjust man out of a desire to get the better; this is what any nature naturally pursues as good, while it is law which by force pe...

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