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11691233 No.11691233 [Reply] [Original]

Has anyone here ever tried to apply the notions of justice from the Republic to their own state of mind?

After all, Plato ultimately says that justice is an order of the soul, in which reason is the commander of things and rules over the spirit and the appetites. He claims that this is what a "rightly ordered" soul looks like, and that this is why the just man is the happiest man of all. Unjust men may have more wealth, and more possessions, and more reputation, but they aren't at peace like the just man is, and this ultimately makes them miserable.

Anyone ever actually tried to make that happen in real life?

>> No.11691257

platonists, duh

>> No.11691492

>>11691233
I suppose modern examples that took that seriously would be Leo Strauss and his almost unknown brilliant classicist/philosopher student Seth Benardete. Neither cared about wealth or reputation. Strauss was willing on occasion to moderately polemicize against positions he found wrongheaded, but Benardete just seems to have never given a shit. Did his own thing and left other's alone while working to improve his understanding.