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What is Plato’s concept of justice? |
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Answer» Plato has given his theoretical interpretation of justice in his famous book “The Republic”. For Plato, justice means: a) A lifestyle which is suitable for the features of one’s profession. b) Each person destined for a special task and he should be used for that task. c) The work one is doing. Plato feels that justice has a personal and social angle. When a person is asked to do a particular job because he is found competent in doing it, the society has to keep that job reserved for him. According to Aristotle, justice is something that can be distributed or something that can be used to rectify mistakes. d) The Distributive Concept demands the equal distribution of things among equals. e) The Corrective Concept remedies the mistakes. f) When equals are treated unequally or when un-equals are treated equally there comes injustice. |
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