| What's justice, How can arrive it? This is a question that people never reach an agreement about it in the history of political philosophy. AS a criterion of value and standard of conduct, justice is very important to human politics. A great deal of thinkers devoted themselves to looking for a absolutely and objective principle of justice and made sustaining effort for it. This paper focus on Socrate's effort,reasons and result of explorate justice in Republic, and review it.Different from other papers of study Republic, this article focus on point out the signification from the view of our era. The article not let Socrate as the mouthpiece of Plato in text interpretation, but try to comprehend the text at whole. The paper believe that Plato don't put forward the theory of justice in the Repulic, but point out why the justice is worth for and how can do it. In the dialog, natural justice with the ideal city built are appeared. However, because the localization of politics, the ideal city can't achieved, so the natural justice is also impossible in politics, even violate the nature of human. But the significance of natural justice is that no other than make philosophy instead of myth, establish the transcendent rule by logos in the era of absence of the gods, can guide people behavior and avoid run into nihilism. The classical political philosophy attach importance to education, especially regard the education of virtue will offer a probability what realization of natural justice.Specially speak, the discussion of this paper will evolve by the order below.The introduction will bring forward the significance of research justice of Republic, and base on the literatures of others set forth the substance,innovation and method of the paper.The second part of this paper expatiated out the situation which our lived, according to the research of Leo strauss and A.Maclntvre show the danger in our epoch and point out the necessity of return to classical political philosophy.The third part of this paper expounded the background of the discussion about justice in Republic. In what context the discussion about justice in the dialogue be launched and the answer why to discuss about justice could be found in this section. Furthermore, this part will show how strikingly similar the background of justice dicussion under plato's setting with situation that we lived, and the similarity will highlight further the meaning of the fact that we pay much attention to this great work. The fourth part of this article will focus on the discussion of natural justice in Republic. First of all, it will elaborate Socrates'disagreement to the two kinds of justice opinion, then it will elaborate separately justice and city-states,justice and good,justice and education around the natural justice.The fifth and sixth parts of the article are the author's summary and review to the discussion about justice in Republic. In the review, the author made a comparison about the thought of justice between Aristotle and Plato, and pointed out the similarities and differences. Instead of making the words "utopias", "idealistic" and so on as the end of comment on Plato and his books, the author not only gave him a positive appraisal, but also think that plato pointed out the road save us from the present situation which we lived. |
