perfectly structured society in which justice is achieved at the social and interpersonal realms. It is ruled by a philosopher king, who maintain the peace and harmony in the ideal society. According to Plato in The Republic, the philosopher king possesses the qualities to be the rightful king to rule in Kallipolis. Philosophers are qualified to rule because they have a understanding of the Forms or the truth, their wisdom allows them to understand justice and their knowledge makes them superior than others. However, a philosopher can be a tyrant in disguise. A ruler needs to be able to interpret the nature of the world in order to rule a just state. Allegory of the cave is used to explain the formation of the philosopher. …show more content…
perfectly structured society in which justice is achieved at the social and interpersonal realms. It is ruled by a philosopher king, who maintain the peace and harmony in the ideal society. According to Plato in The Republic, the philosopher king possesses the qualities to be the rightful king to rule in Kallipolis. Philosophers are qualified to rule because they have a understanding of the Forms or the truth, their wisdom allows them to understand justice and their knowledge makes them superior than others. However, a philosopher can be a tyrant in disguise. A ruler needs to be able to interpret the nature of the world in order to rule a just state. Allegory of the cave is used to explain the formation of the philosopher. …show more content…Plato’s myth of metals divides the society into three sections: the gold, the rulers; sliver, the auxiliaries and iron or bronze, the craftsmen or framers (Plato, Book III). The society functions because there is existence of four important virtues in the society, which is wisdom, courage, temperance and justice. Wisdom is dominant characteristic in the rulers, whereas courage is dominated in the auxiliaries (Plato, Book IV). Temperance is needed to control desires and pleasures. Rulers naturally are more temperance and temperance is needed to keep harmony between all classes. “It turns out that this doing one’s own work - provided that is comes to be in a certain way - is justice” (Plato, 433b). Justice is a helpful tool to preserve all four virtues in the soul.
