e, it deals with the central problem of how to live a good life; what is justice in the State, or what would an ideal State be like, and what is a just individual? These questions also encompass of arts should be encouraged, what form its government should take, who should do the government and for what rewards, what is the nature of the soul, and finally what godly sanctions and!
afterlife should be though to exist.
However, we must not forget the other great philosopher, Aristotle. He was born
in 384 BC. at Stagirus, a Greek colony and seaport on the coast of Thrace. His father
Nichomachus was court physician to King Amyntas of Macedonian, and from this began
Aristotle's long association with the Macedonian Court, which considerably influenced
his life. While he was still a boy his father died. At age 17 his guardian, Proxenus, sent
him to Athens, to complete his education. He joined the Academy and studied under
Plato, attending his lectures for a period of twenty years. In the later years of his
association with Plato and the Academy he began to lecture on his own account,
especially on the subject of rhetoric. Although he studied under Plato. Aristotle
fundamentally disagreed with his teacher on just about everything. He could not bring
himself to think of the world in abstract terms the way Plato did; above all else, Aristotle
believed that the world could be understood at a fundamental level through the detailed
observation and cataloging of phenomenon. That is, knowledge. At the death of Plato in
347 BC, he had wrote many different book. Among them all, one of which considered to
have greater inference over other is The Politics.
In the contest of The Republic, Plato's major political work, is concerned with the question of justice and therefore with the questions "what is a just state" and "who is a just individual?" The ideal state, according to Plato, is composed of three cla...