PLATO ON JUSTICE (publish by: Dabo Euclid)
CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION Background of Study The term justice is increasingly becoming a fascinating issue on the front burner in our age. This is as a result of the many injustices that have becoming endemic and perennial, and whose brute impact we are experiencing in our contemporary age. This odious phenomenon has inevitable from recorded history has informed or drawn.It is in so, many philosophers and scholars into thought provoking reflections on the meaning, nature and essence of justice in human social intercourse. It is significant to assert that amongst the verse array of treatises on justice that of Thomas Aquinas is widely held as the most plausible and incisive. According to him, ‘justice is giving each one his due (Gratsch, 173). Moreover, Plato, the great philosopher is renowned for his brilliant pragmatic notion of justice. Plato’s justice was centered on the poor and deplorable political conditions in Athens. He sought the possible ways of restori...