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Simonodes (via Polemarchus) argues in the first book of The Republic that justice is paying back what is due - Defend or argue against this position.
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PHILOSOPHY ESSAY #1 Topic: Simonodes (via Polemarchus) argues in the first book of The Republic that justice is paying back what is due. Defend or argue against this position. Justice. A term used as means to bring light to societal and cultural norms, has been an issue of deliberation for several centuries. Philosophers have long debated over what justice is and how it should be applied. Philosophers such as Plato view justice as being a matter of knowledge; being aware of the good creates an implication to do good.1 Others, such as Polemarchus view justice as a system that allows for people to 'pay back' those who have done wrong to them with evil and giving good to those who deserve good and giving good to friends and evil to enemies.2 Such a take on justice seems to dismiss the entire concept of being just. Rather then...
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