Plato And Justice

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do not obey one of the higher groups. A state may be said to be just if the Auxiliaries do not simply obey the guardians, but enjoy doing so, that is, they don’t grumble about the authority being exercised over them; a state with “ordinary justice” would require that the Producers not only obey the Auxiliaries and Guardians, but that they do so willingly. Ordinary justice is basically the morality in the community or “outer morality.” But to achieve this “outer morality” They must have “inner morality” which is morality in an individual or “psychic harmony.”
Later Plato identifies the intellect with the Guardians, the spirit of emotions with the Auxiliaries and the bodily appetites with the Producers. Therefore, an individual is courageous if his or her spirit is courageous and individual is wise if his or her intellect is wise. Temperance occurs when the emotions are ruled over by the intellect, and the bodily appetites are ruled over by the emotions and especially the ...

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