This paper
examines how
justice is
ultimately an unknowable concept if we accept Plato's ideas of 'form' or the essential
nature of concepts. It looks at how ,in the "Republic", Plato presents several intelligent and well-thought-out discussions about the nature of justice and how he refutes the arguments that justice is simply rewarding friends or asserting the interests of the strong. It examines how he ultimately concludes that the goal of
life is the pursuit of what is just and that a just life makes man happy.