Eric Goodfield Plato’s Republic and the Ideal City of the Mind -Thrasymachus: “Justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger” -The purity of the castes is to be preserved at all costs in “that there is nothing which they should so anxiously guard, or of which they are to be such good guardians, as of the purity of the race.” -Purpose of the guardians is “the greatest happiness of the whole.” -it is only with the “meddlesomeness …and interference” of the inferior in the “rising up of a part of the soul against the whole” … that the soul is rended into corruption and deformity. -Justice in the soul as in the state means that “each part of him is doing its own business, whether in ruling or being ruled.” -Where “all [are] of one opinion about what is near and dear to them, …they all tend towards a common end.” -“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, cities will never have rest from their evils.” The Allegory of the Cave Source: http://dev.classicalwisdom.com/pursuit-good/ Source: http://p-adamek0912-whatisgood.blogspot.com/2010/09/platos-analogy-of- cave.html