ABSTRACT
To show how justice naturally produces good effects, Socrates sets himself an even more ambitious task than the one the brothers assigned him. He will make his subject not merely justice in the soul, but also the justice of an entire city. Whether plato conceives this larger project as a pretext for addressing political issues, or he seriously thinks he needs the discussion of justice in the city to prove the worth of psychological justice, from this point on the Republic concerns itself with politics. At times, in fact - so much does plato warm to the subject - the individual's justice is eclipsed by the question of how to produce and sustain a just city.
