Answer These Study Questions For My Classics Class.

Republic, Plato

1. How do Cephalus, Polemarchus and Thrasymachus define ‘justice’? How does Socrates /Plato define ‘justice’?

2. What are the three parts of the State? How does the individual soul reflect the three parts, their functions and virtues?

3. What education do the Rulers receive in the State? How does this education enable the Ruler to Know the Good?

4. In what way does the Allegory of the Cave reflect the Four Stages of Cognition in Plato’s theory?

5. How does the Myth of Er explain why it is better to live a ‘just’ rather than an ‘unjust’ life, according to Socrates/Plato?