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This 4 page paper is a brief discussion of Plato's thinking about war, peace, the law and virtue as expressed in the Laws. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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paper is a brief discussion of Platos thinking about war, peace, the law and virtue as expressed in the Laws. Discussion Virtue, according to Plato, is something that is
inborn, or at least comes to us at a very early age: "Pleasure and pain I maintain to be the first perceptions of children, and I say that they are
the forms under which virtue and vice are originally present to them" (Plato). Education is the mechanism by which virtue and other ideas are refined: "Now I mean by education
that training which is given by suitable habits to the first instincts of virtue in children;-when pleasure, and friendship, and pain, and hatred, are rightly implanted in souls not yet
capable of understanding the nature of them, and who find them, after they have attained reason, to be in harmony with her" (Plato). This "harmony of the soul" as Plato
calls it, is virtue (Plato). Thus, we can assume that for Plato, a virtuous person, or by extension, a virtuous city or state, is one that is in harmony; specifically
in harmony with itself. Education, he argues, is that which makes us love what we should love and hate what is appropriate to hate; this is very interesting, as it
suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in harmony, and if it teaches what
it is appropriate to love and hate, and if love and hate are part of harmony, then it also has laws that will support its beliefs about harmony; i.e., virtue.
The connection then between law and virtue is clear and direct. Plato expresses this thinking in several ways, one of which also brings us to his thinking about war. He
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