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Justice

Plato (who speaks through Socrates) separates
people based on their innate strength, intelligence, and courage. Those who are not overly bright, or strong, or brave, are best suited to various productive jobs such as: building, farming, and smithing. Those who are bright, strong and especially courageous are suited to defensive and policing professions. Those who are extraordinarily intelligent, virtuous and brave are suited to run the state itself; that is, Plato's ideal state is an aristocracy, a Greek word that means "rule by the best." The lower end of human society, which as far as Plato is concerned, consists of an overwhelming majority of people in a state, he calls the "producers," since they are most suited for productive work. The middle section of society, a smaller but still large number of people, make up the army and the police and are called the "Auxiliaries". The best and Brightest, a very small and rarefied group, are those who are in complete......

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