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Chapter 7 - Justice Springs Internal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2025

Roslyn Weiss
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Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
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This chapter addresses an inevitable question: How are later books of the Republic, and specifically Book 4, related to Book 1? It contends that justice as conceived in Book 1 is “external,” concerned with how one entity regards and treats another, and so is at odds with the novel definition of justice in Book 4, according to which it is “internal,” a matter of what happens within a single entity, whether a city or a soul. It is argued that in Book 4, Socrates, having been tasked with persuading Glaucon and Adeimantus that there is profit in being just, identifies a reward for being just, namely, the harmonious internal state of city and soul. Although he briefly calls this healthy and therefore desirable condition “justice,” he more frequently and aptly identifies it as “moderation.” This chapter makes the case that it is the account of justice found in Book 1 that more closely reflects Socrates’ (or Plato’s) understanding of it.

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Justice in Plato's Republic
The Lessons of Book 1
, pp. 181 - 193
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Justice Springs Internal
  • Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Justice in Plato's <i>Republic</i>
  • Online publication: 24 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009466530.008
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  • Justice Springs Internal
  • Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Justice in Plato's <i>Republic</i>
  • Online publication: 24 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009466530.008
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  • Justice Springs Internal
  • Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
  • Book: Justice in Plato's <i>Republic</i>
  • Online publication: 24 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009466530.008
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