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Excerpt from The Republic of Plato
Though Thrasymachus is easily silenced, his defeat is not the end of the discussion. Socrates reviewing the argument at the end of Book I. Says that until we know what justice and injustice are, we cannot really tell whether the just or the unjust life is the better. The two subjects are therefore united. The conversation is now directed towards the aim of so defining justice and injustice, and describing their necessary results on society and the soul of man, that an answer may be given to the question between the just and the unjust life based on such universal and ultimate facts of human experience that it must win the agreement of every man who will consent to use his reason. With this the rest of the dialogue is concerned, and at the end of Book IX. The results are gathered together. The superiority of the just life is established by three proofs one based on what we have learnt about justice and injustice from their effects on society, the second on what we now know of the constitution of the human soul, and the third on the account of the nature of reality and truth which has been discussed in Books VI. And VII. Finally, in Book X. The Myth of Er rea?irms this superiority from the standpoint of eternity.
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