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Essay / Justice In Plato's Republic - 1072
Plato (2007) says: "Well, musicians will hardly use their skills to make their students unmusical, or riding masters make their students bad horsemen, then men will simply use their justice to make their students evil. others unjust? » (335c p.13). For example, a person who goes out and steals someone's car would be considered unfair because they feel needy and want to have something from someone else. Another example is that if a doctor who simply does not care to treat his patients in case of a medical problem, he is also called unfair because he is deliberately ignoring his job title as a doctor. Finally, a hairdresser can act unfairly, because if he refuses to take on a client who rightly belongs to him. Unjust people either don't realize their position based on their role in life, or treat someone worse than they deserve to be treated. In comparison, an unjust society fails to realize the meaning of what a society should be. It is obvious that it is better to be fair and worse to be unfair. In Book IV of The Republic, Socrates proposes that each individual would be happy working in the workforce that best fits their role. The idea of returning to specialization to best accomplish a task is based on