Plato and Justice

Justice Plato (who speaks through Socrates) seperates people based on their innate strength, intelligence, and courage. Those who are not overly bright, or strong, or brave, are best suited to various productive jobs such as: building, farming, and smithing. Those who are bright, strong and especially courageous are suited to defensive and policing professions. Those who are extraordinarily intelligent, virtuous and brave are suited to run the state itself; that is, Plato’s ideal state …

…warriors will have desires and so are not likely to be happy in circumstances as any reasonable person would see it, but as Plato defines human nature himself. It is easy to see how Plato could have came into this mistake by the nature of his analogy between inner and outer morality/justice. Inner morality has three simple parts, but the outer morality has three parts that consists of things that each has three parts.