Plato tells a story in his book the
Republic about a discussion on justice. On what it truly meant and it was to be
interpreted. This story tells about the different aspects and facets of
what justice can truly mean and what it is in comparison to what it means. There
are three different points of views on justice told before the story begins. One
of them is told by saying how “justice is only determined by the strongest.” This
is an example of where what is supposed to be justice and how justice is
actually executed begins to diverge from one another. This can actually tie in
to the story that is told later about a man and a ring.
In the story
told one man finds a ring on a dead body at the end of cavern and wears it. This
ring he soon learns gives him the power of invisibility. While this man may
have been a lawful and nice man before, now he had freedom to do what he wanted
and so he did by taking the king’s wife, the king’s life, and the king’s
throne. This ties in ties in to the definition of power above because suddenly
even though he committed treason and murder since this man was the one in power
there were no consequences. The man was able to get away with doing things
supposedly against the law, and against most morals and ethics by being
undetected in his crimes until he was the one making the rules and giving out
the punishments to those who had broken them.
Jennifer Davis
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