One of the tremendous benefits of homeschooling our five kids is the opportunity to talk about things that really matter. Our oldest and I have been discussing JUSTICE over the past few weeks. What is justice? This is a question that has been asked for several millennium, and it is great to bring my son into the conversation.
I won't go into detail about Plato's view, but the discussion on whether it is best to be just or only to seem so is a great discussion. Although Socrates pokes holes in Glaucon's arguments, his concern seems universal and is a theme the prophets of Scripture bring up. According to Glaucon, the happy (blessed) man is the one that is not actually just, but only seems to be. Here is one of the gems in Plato's Republic:
I won't go into detail about Plato's view, but the discussion on whether it is best to be just or only to seem so is a great discussion. Although Socrates pokes holes in Glaucon's arguments, his concern seems universal and is a theme the prophets of Scripture bring up. According to Glaucon, the happy (blessed) man is the one that is not actually just, but only seems to be. Here is one of the gems in Plato's Republic:
Sound familiar? Do you recall that the cross is foolishness to the Greek? Do you remember the testimony of the soldier at the foot of the cross?...let him be clothed in justice only and have no other covering... Let him be the best of men, and let him be thought the worst; then he will have been put to the proof; and we shall see whether he will be affected by the fear of infamy and its consequences. And let him continue thus to the hour of death; being just and seeming to be unjust... [T]he just man who is thought unjust will be scourged, racked, bound... and at last, after suffering every kind of evil, he will be hung on a pole (impaled). Republic, Book 2, 361-362ish.
"Truly, this was a just man."
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