VCU The Republic: Education in Relation to Justice Paper

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five-page, double-spaced, typed papers (12 font): 60% (30% each)

This is a “writing across the curriculum” (WAC) class. WAC courses are required in order to continue a process that begins in your English Composition classes. The purpose is to will learn the writing skills specific to your major while improving your general ability to write about complicated ideas and research.


Optional prompt for first 5-page paper

In the Republic, Plato builds a city in theory. Take up one of the following bullet pointed themes and show how he relates it to a discussion of justice:

(Your thesis will probably be your argument about how he relates the theme to justice. You may not be clear about it until you have written at least one draft of the paper. At that point, you will want to go back through on a rewrite and see how your thesis is developing and how it might be most clearly articulated in the first paragraph(s) of the paper.)

I suggest you approach the paper by thinking about whichever theme(s) you choose with the following question in mind:

What is the logic Plato (using Socrates’ as his interlocutor) deploys and what do arguments for (or skepticism about) these arrangements look like?

  • Education
  • Property among guardians
  • Differences among groups in the city
  • Myth and lies
  • The tripartite soul (reason/spirit/desire)
  • How does the individual soul “map” onto the differences among groups in the city?

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Running head: THE REPUBLIC

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The Republic: Education in Relation to Justice
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THE REPUBLIC

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The Republic: Education in Relation to Justice
A critical analysis of the “Republic” reveals various themes that Plato tries to relate to
justice through discussion. The theme of education distinctively stands out in the famous
Platonic dialogue, and the connection established between the theme and justice is remarkable.
Seemingly, Plato highly valued education both as a concept and as a necessity in life, and the
profound importance he offered it is observable considering its implicit inclusion in the ideal
city. Undeniably, education is an important aspect in every dimension of life, and its recognition
in the discussion of the Platonic view of justice affirms its relevance and invaluableness.
In the ‘Republic’ dialogue, the first time Plato gives attention to education is in Book 2.
This is after Glaucon oversimplifies Socrates’ ideal city, terming it as too modest, restricting the
portrayal of the insignificance to only four words; a city of pigs (Coumoundouros, n.d). For this
reason, Socrates invents the ideation of a luxurious city fortified by a highly-trained army. At
that point, the flow of the dialogue forces Plato into introducing education as a necessity to the
creation of the perfect soldiers (Plato et al., 2000). It is important to note that his idea of an ideal
guard is the one who humbles himself to his fellow citizens but fiercely attacks the enemy. Such
a high level of humbleness and loyalty is only achievable through a carefully considered
educational system meant to forge submissive guardians ready to protect the citizens, the city
laws, and the traditions.
The theoretical building of the ideal city is Plato’s strategy to explain the meaning of
justice. Socrates is only trying to untangle h...


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