Plato and the Republic.

... Plato and the Republic In his desire to identify and define justice, Plato explored many avenues and answered many pressing questions of him time. He found that the best way to discover justice was to identify its context. By which he described, in his opinion, the five types of states (governments) and, correspondingly, the five types of individuals in those different states. In order for a just man, and likewise, an unjust man, to succeed and be profitable, Plato thought it necessary to understand these different societies and the types of individuals contained within them. Thus, the key to achieving a state where a just individual in more profitable than an unjust individual is to "decide which state was the best and which the worst, and then consider whether or not the best is also the happiest, the worst the most miserable."1 As described and discussed by Plato, the five

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