![]() The remaining books find Socrates seeking out justice in the ‘feverish city’ or, rather, trying to produce justice despite inhabiting the feverish city (372e). He is soon interrupted, of course, by Glaucon’s retort that, without luxuries, the people will inhabit a city fit only for pigs (369a–372d). The members of the just city, he posits, would live moderate and peaceful lives, evading both poverty and war. In Book II of Plato’s Republic, Socrates seeks out the ‘justice of one man’ by examining the role of justice in the city ( 1968, 368e).
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