ants. According to The Republic, "The city will
be courageous in virtue of a portion of herself which preserves under all circumstance that is not opinion about
nature of things to be feared and not to be feared . . ." (148). That means courage is holding on, in spite of pain or
personal desire. The Soldiers exemplify courage because being well learned in music and gymnastics means
they are prepared "not to be washed away by such potent lyes as pleasure . . . or by sorrow, fear, and desire"
(Republic 148). These same qualities that constitute courage within the individual also ring true for the State as a
Socrates and Glaucon came to the realization "temperance has more of nature of harmony and
symphony" than the other virtues did (Republic 150). Temperance is an agreement throughout the State as to who
should rule and it "extents to the whole and runs through all the notes of the scale, and produces a harmony of the
weaker and the stronger and the middle class" (Republic 151). However, it deals with the individual as well. In
order to be in control of certain pleasures and desires one must be able to have power over the better principles
within his soul as well as the worse. By "a man being his own master" he has conquered the art of temperance
Justice was the main virtue Plato was concerned about. He felt it was "the only virtue which remains in the
State when the other virtues . . . are abstracted" (Republic 153). As stated in The Republic, justice can be defined by
"the power of each individual in the State to do his own work" (153). Consequently, meddling in someone else's
business would disrupt the harmony and throw off the State as a whole, otherwise causing injustice.
Plato believed that justice was made up of certain parts of the soul, more specifically desire, reason, and
spirit or passion....