Plato lived from about 429 to 347 B.C.E. and was an Athenian citizen of high status. His writings show a close absorption in the political events and intellectual movements of his time, and he is counted among the most influential authors in the history of philosophy. He treated philosophy as a rigorous and systematic examination of ethical, political, metaphysical and epistemological questions, so that the subject as it is often conceived can be called his invention. Aristotle studied with him, and educated readers in nearly every period have been influenced by his dialogues, including the Republic, in which Socrates argues about justice in the soul.
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he displays in his works his absorption
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in Plato’s Republic , Socrates argues that justice in the soul consists in each
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