id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt m039k359h5s Jesse Schupack The Socratic Foundations of Platonic Justice 2019 .txt text/plain 293 11 52 Finally, I show of the Republic that, mature work though it is, we find in the essential features of its characterization of justice a clear continuity with the Socratic account of virtue in the Gorgias and Apology. On this view, the Republic represents Plato's progression from the early, largely negative Socratic ethics and the introduction of his better, more mature account of justice, built on the foundation of a highly un-Socratic metaphysical theory. cache/m039k359h5s.txt txt/m039k359h5s.txt