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The start of theater and drama in Ancient Greece took form in about 5th century b.c, with Sophocles being considered the master of tragedy. In his plays and those of the same genre, classic fables that the people of the era knew well were used to tell the stories. The tragic hero’s of these stories often strive to live honorable and righteous lives, but because of some mistake their lives would often great and noble death. The idea that serving the state was proper way to gain honor was a popular belief during this time period. This philosophy was echoed by Plato in his book, the Republic. Plato dealt with establishing the ideal state. The way to achieve the ideal state was through striving for justice. Justice, according to Plato, is doing only the tasks assigned to them by nature. This is the fundamental notion for his creation of an ideal city. It is both knowing what true justice is and where one belongs in the city that the ideal can be achieved. Justice in a city can be found in an individual as well outside the individual because it is a concept that is universal. If a ruler of a state was to maintain order and control over his people

The rulers are the most important and must be brought up with a good moral upbringing. Plato believes that it is necessary to tell the rulers falsehoods in their childhood to have them be gentile to their own people and harmful to their enemies. In order to give them a good moral upbringing Plato states that you need to read them stories about the Gods. But because the ruler can only be subjected to good moral ideas, the evil stories will be overlooked. " Aren't there two kinds of story, one true and the other false?" Socrates states," Yes. And mustn't our men be educated in both, but first in false ones?" Plato thinks that children not be confronted with anything evil until its character is already formed, making the children respect honesty and virtue." The young cant distinguish what is allegorical from what isn't, and the opinions they absorb at that age are hard to erase and apt to become unalternatable. For these reasons, then, we should take the utmost care to insure that the first stories they hear about virtue are the best ones for them to hear."

            On the contrary, Plato's idea of the ruler is almost exactly the opposite that of Machiavelli's.  Plato's reason for his ideal ruler and state was to explain the meaning of justice. One must examine what it means for a state to be just and what it means for a person to be just to truly understand the meaning of justice.  According to Socrates, ??if we first tried to observe justice in some larger thing that possessed it, this would make it easier to observe in a single individual. We agreed that this larger thing is a city?(Plato 96).?  Plato?s ideal ruler must have a good mind, always be truthful, have knowledge and discipline, and not be afraid of death.  The ruler is a philosopher that satisfies the four virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation/self-control, and justice.

Now let us take a look into the background of the story. Plato gives his ideals on a perfect society and everything it should include. He basically implies that justice is rightness, and rightness is whatever he feels it should be. He breaks society down into guardians, wage earners, and auxiliaries. Wage earners are people such as surgeons or shoemakers.

In the Republic, Plato sets up a framework to help us establish what the four virtues are, and their relationship between them to both the city and the soul. According to Plato, the four virtues are wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. There are three classes within the city: guardians, auxiliaries, and artisans; and three parts within the soul include intellect, high-spirited, and appetitive. By understanding the different classes of the city or parts of the soul, one will be able to appreciate how the virtues attribute to each one specifically.

A leaders determination and will to do something good can lead to doing unwanted things. The “principal” of a society might not plan on doing things to affect others, instead they try to do things to improve the society. But while doing so a person can cause serious harm. For example Oedipus the King, who was raised by a Shepherd and a queen, finds out that he was adopted. He also discovers that he had been cursed by a Sphinx. He knew that due to this curse his fate would lead him to marrying his mother and killing his father. Obviously this was not wanted so to avoid this from happening he travels to Thebes to try and conquer the Sphinx. On his way to Thebes he runs into trouble with this man and ends up killing him. When he arrives to Thebes he later becomes the hero and leader of the society for solving the riddle to the curse. He finds a beautiful girl named Jocasta, marries her, and even has four children with her. Later Oedipus realizes that Laius, the guy he had killed due to the road rage was his birth father and the lady whom he had married was his mother. This represents how a leaders determination can affect not only a society but a group of people while having good intentions.

This allegory is also used to describe justice. The prisoners’ in the cave do not know what real justice looks like. The people on the mountain tops must come down and give understanding to those who are lacking it. Plato goes on to describe the type of leader that would be perfect to run the ideal city. The type of leader that Plato describes is someone who is “wisest about the affairs of the state, and by whom the state is best administered and who at the same time have other honors and a better life then that of politics. “ The ideal leader in Plato’s time is not much different from the ideal leader in our time period. We still want someone who knows and understands the problems of the state or country, who will be a good leader, and will be able to put the welfare of his people before his own. These characteristics are still what many people look for in a dependable leader. Plato describes that a good leader should not be caught up in their own wealth, they should care about their people. This is a very foundational idea that is still important in America today. We desire to have a leader who will be humble and care for us, instead of one that has a hidden agenda. According to Plato, economic self-interest and political power must be kept separate and not be allowed to work in combination to the disadvantage of the state.

Paul Johnson, the author of Socrates: A Man for Our Times, argues that part of heroism is philosophy at its last resort. Whoever is going after the excellence of the mind should have the courage, to practice philosophy to the point of sacrificing everything, even one’s life. Johnson argues that Socrates did just that. (194) Johnson goes on to say that Socrates was a “man and thinker, as a hugely real, living, and enjoyable human being.” (14) Through Socrates opinions, personality, and mostly his love for the people and the city of Athens overall made him a striking person (34). Johnson goes on to show the reader the

This film is based off a true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a disrespective racially integrated unit.

Where a select few govern over the many. Plato describes four constitutions that result from people with certain characteristics rule. Each constitution, there is a type of soul that corresponds to that specific constitution. Plato defines the source of change for the just city as the failures of the ruling class. More specifically their failure to carefully monitor the begetting of children.

In The Republic there are six reoccurring themes education, justice, specialization, philosopher-king, soul, and truth. Plato uses justice though as the folk point and the remaining five trace back to justice. Socrates defines justice as “that one man should practice one thing only, the thing to which his nature was best adapted” (Plato 123). Socrates then goes to discuss the three parts to the soul, “A man reasons, we may call the rational principle of the soul, the other… may be termed the irrational or appetitive” and then there is the spirit (Plato 130). Kant proposes that justice “says that only good people should be happy, and happy in proportion to their goodness” (Gustafson 67). Plato and Socrates saw justice as giving what is owed, while Kant saw justice as being happy in proportion to their virtue. Yet each strived for justice and look to eliminate the injustices in the world.

The film, Coach Carter directed by Thomas Carter, is based on the true story of a basketball coach in Richmond, California. The basketball coach, Ken Carter, appeared on the news in 1999 when he suspended his players from their basketball games because they cared more about basketball than their grades. Through proper leadership, the players learned that it takes more than basketball to escape the harsh reality of the inner city. They found that the right authority figures, proper ethics and academic responsibilities will help them to defy the statistics of what happens to young men without proper leadership. Majority of the players lacked leadership roles in the home.

The Tri-part Theory of the Soul consist of the four virtues in which help establish an ideal state with no corruption, the 4 virtues are wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. According to Plato the first three needed to be understood in order for justice to be understood as well. The first virtue is wisdom which is the possession of knowledge and prudence in listening to council is found in the act of guardianship, which would then stand in for the virtue of rulers. The second virtue is courage which is bravery and holding fast to educated convictions in the face of adversity which is the virtue of soldier. And example of courage would be Socrates willing to die for something he believed in. The third virtue which need to be understood

Shows conveyed essential ideas such as too much pride results in a fatal ending or that killing begets more killing. Today, we attend dark movie theaters and rarely interact with the others also attending the movie. The premise of common life shown in Greek theater was imperative to the question regarding justice for Plato. Justice is not simply the right of the stronger, however it is the efficient harmony of all. In other terms, justice is essentially bearing and completing what is ones’ own. For society and individuals to equally prosper, everyone must do what they are best fitted to do.

Plutarch in our textbook tried to define the teaching of Plato as how to love liberty and living it by focusing on virtue, justice and morality. So, the write could explain Plato’s teaching by his students Dion and Brutus, that they were noble men who had risen from an inconsiderable background. They were both pupils of Plato whose lives were set parallel by his teachings. Dion should have ended up in sadness and miserable life. They fought together great struggles and overcame many odds to rise in power and dominance. However, both Dion and Brutus's lives were cut way before they could realize their dreams and potential. They had been warned of their impending fall by specters but became delusional.