The Republic - Foundational work of western political philosophy - Beginning of systematic inquiry into the question of justice - Asks several important and enduring questions - What is justice? - Why be just? Is it more advantageous to be just or unjust? - How do we create the just society? - What are the qualities of the just citizen? Three crude definitions of justice - To speak the truth and to give back what one has taken from another - Socrates finds this answer to be deficient - Not true in every case - Answer to the question of justice needs to have a universally applicable answer - What if what was to be returned would harm the individual who was the recipient

Unveiling Justice and The Republic: Definitions and Inquiry

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