Partenie, Cătălin2024-11-252024-11-252019Partenie, C. (2019). Justice and ideas in Plato’s Republic. In Riedweg, C. (Ed.) Philosophy of the city : acts of the Fifth Congress of the Society for Ancient Philosophy : 2016 (p. 159-172). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664836-008https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664836-008https://debdfdsi.snspa.ro/handle/123456789/971The author Cătălin Partenie is affiliated to SNSPA, Faculty of Political Science.Plato argues in the Republic that in both the city and the soul, justice is the well- functioning of their parts. There are now plenty of books about the well- functioning of organizations, cities, and one’s psyche, but their authors do not call it “justice”. One such book, published in French in 2017 (under the title Foutez-vous la paix!, by Fabrice Midal), goes even further and claims that to reach inner peace and psychic well-functioning we have to stop reasoning completely. Anyway, why does Plato insist that justice is, in both city and soul, the well-functioning of their parts? This is the main question I shall address in my essay.en-USJusticePlato’s RepublicBook chapter