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Justice vs. Injustice
Book II of Plato’s Republic explores the concept of justice. One ethical assumption of Plato’s Republic is the following: True freedom is primarily internal, rather than external; it is freedom from the non-rational patterns, not “doing whatever one pleases.” This assumption is related to Plato’s argument that the more an individual’s desires and wants are controlled by reason, the better of that person is. Plato’s argument is logical and supported by the ethical assumption above. It is important that Plato establishes his argument on justice to prove that true freedom is external. Justice will then become the basis for the state that he creates in the Republic.
There are two important questions pertaining to justice that Plato explores in Book II of the Republic. The first one is whether the individual is born naturally just or unjust. Glaucon uses the story of the Ring of Gyges to show that external forces such as wants can influence...

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