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The platonic idea of justice concerns harmony,
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he tells us, both harmony in the city and harmony in the soul.
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We learn that the two are actually homologous in some way.
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Justice is defined as what binds the city together and makes it one.
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Or he puts it another way, consists of everyone and everything
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performing those functions for which they are best equipped.
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Each of the other citizens, Socrates says,
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must be brought to that which naturally suits him,
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which naturally suits him, one man, one job, he says.
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So that each man practicing his own which is one,
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will not become many but one.
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Thus you see, he says, the whole city will naturally grow up together.