Plato is primarily concerned with knowing the good. In "The Republic", Plato intends to define justice and describes an elaborate city-state setup with the goal of being a just city. A guardian class of philosophers rules in Plato's city, because these are the only people who can know the good. Everyone else's role in the city is to do their work to support the city so that the guardians are able to philosophize. Aristotle does …
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…that kind 3.The character and behavior of a member of that kind is determined by its constitution And finally that a structural feature of a complex is a feature of its constitution. Considering Plato's outline for how justice can be attained and found in a state as well as a brief personal discussion of my own view, I can assert to some extent that justice in a city is similar to justice in an individual.