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Plato Analysis

The Miserable Tyrant is the Worst of Souls
Plato's The Republic centers on a simple question: is it better to be just than unjust? In answering this overlying question, Socrates outlines the ideal city and how justice is a virtue of that city. From there, he characterizes justice as a virtue of the soul. It is while he is discussing the soul that Socrates begins to define the different types of souls. Rather than comparing and contrasting each soul, Plato quickly jumps into contrasting the tyrannical soul with the aristocratic soul – the most unjust with the most just. In Book IX of Plato's The Republic, Socrates describes a man in an awful state asserting that the worst of souls is the tyrant. This accurate assertion can be seen through the consideration of not only the tyrant's personal characteristics but also the negative ______ he contributes to the city.
In Book VIII of Plato's Republic, the five types of people are presented in parallel to the fives types of......


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