{"id":2967,"date":"2021-07-08T09:54:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T09:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2021-10-22T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T10:59:10","slug":"in-their-discussion-of-justice-in-book-iii-of-ciceros-on-the-commonwealth-philus-laelius-and-scipio-repeat-some-of-the-argument-about-justice-that-plato-and-socrates-develo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/in-their-discussion-of-justice-in-book-iii-of-ciceros-on-the-commonwealth-philus-laelius-and-scipio-repeat-some-of-the-argument-about-justice-that-plato-and-socrates-develo\/","title":{"rendered":"In their discussion of justice in Book III of Cicero\u2019s \u201cOn the Commonwealth\u201d Philus, Laelius and Scipio repeat some of the argument about justice that Plato and Socrates develop in the\u00a0Republic.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;6. In their discussion of justice in Book III of Cicero\u2019s &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cOn the Commonwealth\u201d Philus, Laelius and Scipio repeat some of the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;argument about justice that Plato and Socrates develop in the Republic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Compare and contrast discussions of justice in these two texts. In what ways is Philus\u2019 argument similar to those made by Thrasymachus and Glaucon in Books I and II of the Republic? &nbsp;Is Scipio\u2019s argument reminiscent of any made in the Republic? &nbsp;How would Aristotle via his Politics have assessed this discussion of justice in Rome?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;    In his introduction to Cicero\u2019s On the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Commonwealth George Sabine suggests [p. 63] that \u201cWhile other &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;writers on political theory, such as Plato, had described the ideal state &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;in general, Cicero illustrates the nature of the perfect commonwealth by &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the description of a real state,\u201d a state, moreover, that had progressed &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by a natural course from its humble beginnings under the kings to its &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;perfection in the years preceding the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How would Plato and Aristotle have responded to Cicero\u2019s \u201creal state\u201d? &nbsp;Cite specific texts and arguments in each case &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>from the Gorgias, the Republic and the Politics as well as Cicero\u2019s On the Commonwealth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;6. In their discussion of justice in Book III of Cicero\u2019s &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cOn the Commonwealth\u201d Philus, Laelius and Scipio repeat some of the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;argument about justice that Plato and Socrates develop in the Republic.&nbsp; Compare and contrast discussions of justice in these two texts. In what ways is Philus\u2019 argument similar to those made by Thrasymachus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-science-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10344,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/10344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}