Plato's Republic 2

Plato’s Republic discusses numerous topics such as justice, music, poetry, politics, etc. While I found the discussions on music very controversial and interesting, the discussions on justice also caught my eye and provoked a lot of thought on my part. Book I of Plato’s Republic examines justice carefully. Book I’s main ideas are to get rid of common but false ideas about justice and to clear the air for a new theory. …

…neither should be our laws. But since they are it forces the lower classes to be unjust and the upper classes seem like angels. In conclusion, I found Book I of the Plato’s Republic very interesting and I liked a lot of the ideas on justice but as I said, differences in social classes need to be considered. I can’t help but enjoy Socrates’ argumentative style of proving points and disproving weak theories.