Monday, May 20, 2013

Is wisdom justice?

The two main questions that need to be asked when it comes to this question are: What is wisdom? and What is justice? Both are very difficult to answer. People have many different definitions of what they think wisdom is or what they think justice is. Wisdom I think is sort of a maturity to thought and understanding. It is a sort of knowledge where you understand what to think and what is good to think and what his bad to think. You understand how the world works and how the world should work. Justice is very difficult to define. The Republic tries its best in using the Socratic method to define a perfectly just society. Justice is basically the act of doing something in consequence of someone doing something else. In justice you need to understand what is good for society and you need to understand why things are good. In a way justice and wisdom are related because you need to understand what makes the world good to have a clear background in both.