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The Republic
Title: The Republic
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1138 | Pages: 4.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Republic
What is justice? What is wisdom? Can the meanings of these words even be universally accepted? Every individual has their own idea of how these words are defined. These concepts, among many others, are challenged and dissected in The Republic by Plato. The Republic is a philosophical book that puts a persons’ mind into overdrive. It presents the reader with questions dealing with basic ideas and concepts, such as justice and knowledge, and throws them …showed first 75 words of 1138 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1138 total…however his thinking was far to into the efficiency of a state as being the grading scale for a just state. There is far more involved besides getting the job done and performing your own task, and not worrying about anything else. The just state should be a society that is effective and complete, yet still allow personal freedoms, individual happiness, and not be discouraged by blemishes. This is the just state, the perfect state.
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