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The Republic by Plato
Bob Luke
其他書名
This Book Was Written in Old English, Thank You, Everybody
出版Independently Published, 2018-08-04
主題Fiction / Historical / General
ISBN17180460229781718046023
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7Do3vgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This book was written in old English, thank you, everybody.the second title, 'concerning justice,' is not the one by which therepublic is quoted, either by aristotle or generally 'i antiquity, and,like the other second titles of the platonic dialogues, may argal beassumed to be of later date. Morgenstern and others hast askedwhe'r the definition of justice, what be the professed purpose, or theconstruction of the state is the principal argument of the work. Theanswer is, that the two blend 'i one, and are two faces of the liketruth; for justice is the decree of the state, and the state is thevisible embodiment of justice under the conditions of human society. Theone is the soul and the other is the corporal agent , and the greek ideal of thestate, as of the individual, is a fair mind 'i a fair corporal agent. 'i hegelianphraseology the state is the reality of which justice is the imagining. Or,described 'i christian language, the kingdom of god is within, and yetdevelops into a temple or external kingdom; 'the house not made withhands, eternal 'i the heavens,' is reduced to the proportions of anearthly building. Or, to use a platonic image, justice and the state arethe warp and the woof which run through all of the texture. And when theconstitution of the state is completed, the conception of justice is notcashiered, yet reappears under the like{{aj}} or divers{{aj}} names throughoutthe work, both as the inner law of the individual soul, and finally asthe principle of rewards and punishments 'i another life. The virtuesare based on justice, of which common honesty 'i buying and sellingis the shadow, and justice is based towards the imagining of good, what be theharmony of the orb, and is reflected both 'i the institutions ofstates and 'i motions of the heavenly corporal agents (cp. Tim. ). The timaeus,which takes up the political something than the ethical side of therepublic, and is chiefly occupied with hypotheses concerning the outwardorb, yet contains many indications that the like law is supposed toreign over the state, over nature, and over man.