Plato’s Republic discusses numerous topics such as justice, music, poetry, politics, etc. While I found the discussions on music very controversial and interesting, the discussions on justice also caught my eye and provoked a lot of thought on my part. Book I of Plato’s Republic examines justice carefully. Book I’s main ideas are to get rid of common but false ideas about justice and to clear the air for a new theory. …showed first 75 words of 1429 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1429 total…neither should be our laws. But since they are it forces the lower classes to be unjust and the upper classes seem like angels. In conclusion, I found Book I of the Plato’s Republic very interesting and I liked a lot of the ideas on justice but as I said, differences in social classes need to be considered. I can’t help but enjoy Socrates’ argumentative style of proving points and disproving weak theories.