ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Plato contended that justice is the quality of soul, in virtue of which men set aside the irrational desire to taste every pleasure and to get a selfish satisfaction out of every object and accommodated themselves to the discharge of a single function for the general benefit.

Detailed explanation-2: -For Plato a person’s virtue consists in his knowledge of the good. It’s not that a person is knowledgeable about some things or at some times and is therefore virtuous in some aspects and un-virtuous in others.

Detailed explanation-3: -Part of Plato’s case for his view that we must be moral in order to be truly happy rests on a discussion of the four cardinal virtues: wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. Wisdom has to do with the intellect. For Plato, the wise person uses the mind to understand moral reality and then apply it to her daily life.

Detailed explanation-4: -Plato, at least in many of his dialogues, held that the true self of human beings is the reason or the intellect that constitutes their soul and that is separable from their body.