What is justice for Socrates, in Plato's Republic?

Now that is a GQ. But I need to think about it. Nice job.

@Adirondackwannabe What is justice to YOU?

Justice is you treating me like you’d want me to treat you. It’s pretty simple.

Socrates is a bit tougher, they had some rough issues.

@Adirondackwannabe What is I’m a masochist

A masochist is one that enjoys and gets off on pain. Some is okay, but serious masochism would make me wonder.

How did those issues arise?

The Romans had a lot of issues. They tried to use mercenaries, they had massive corruption, and their systems collapsed on themselves

What is this, a homework question? Read the book and find out.

At the risk of outing myself, here is something to get you started:

Socrates is drawing an analogy between the just state and the just individual. In the just state, as in the just individual, each of the 3 major components is doing what it is supposed to do and not usurping the functions of the others.

But this is only a preliminary answer, for without “escaping from the cave” and grasping the Form of Good, we can never truly grasp the essence of justice. So the explanation of justice that Socrates offers in this work is tentative.

@Adirondackwannabe Socrates was Greek, not Roman.

@CugelTheClueless Correct. I confuse my old hairy dudes.