Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 1983

Publication Title

Polity

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to determine whether, and to what extent, Plato's classic defense of justice in the Republic applies not only to philosophers, but to ordinary human beings--to warriors and artisans. The paper pursues this question by considering the benefits that accrue to the warrior and artisan classes from their submission to the rule of philosopher kings, as well as the benefits to spiritedness and appetite from their subordination to reason.

Volume

15

Issue

4

First Page

515

Last Page

535

Comments

Peer reviewed accepted manuscript.

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