id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dvsmveuqovdljicvwpqrevd72e Robert Heinaman Social Justice in Plato's Republic 1998 21 .pdf application/pdf 12044 791 74 In two papers on the Republic1 Gregory Vlastos argued that, insofar as it concerns the distribution of goods or �the allocation of substantive rights,�2 social equality,5 justice exists when goods are distributed to people in proportion to According to Vlastos, when considering the Republic�s account of political justice we should forget all about proportional equality.8 I believe that this what one�s contribution to the wellbeing of the city entitles one to is all socially distributable goods in proportion to the scale of one�s contributions. guardians would not show that distributive justice in the Republic is not determined by proportional equality. within the Republic itself, since he concedes that proportional equality determines the Republic�s account of political justice on two important points.39 Furthermore, if, for the above reason, the distribution of this good is thought to be determined by political justice, proportional equality ./cache/work_dvsmveuqovdljicvwpqrevd72e.pdf ./txt/work_dvsmveuqovdljicvwpqrevd72e.txt