elf with sufficient motive to fulfill his covenants. In order to ensure that man is motivated to keep his covenant, Hobbes considers that some power must hold men to these covenants, and is led claim that there need for an absolute sovereign. Thus, there is such a thing as justice when a sovereign makes it reasonable to fulfill a covenant and man follows through with his moral obligation.The next notion of justice that will be analyzed in response to the fool’s suggestion that ‘there is no such thing as justice’ is from Plato. The main difference between Plato and Hobbes notion to justice is that Plato believes that justice is good in itself, where as Hobbes believes that justice is for self-interest. Plato explains justice in two different ways: in the city and in the individual human being. Both the city and the soul of the individual human being are composed of three different parts. The city contains a ruling class, an auxiliary class and craftsmen class. Similarly, the soul has a reasoning, a spirited and an appetitive part. Plato contends that in both the human and the city, justice is when each part of the city or soul performs the job it is naturally fit to do. Plato begins by responding to the challenge from Glaucon to show that being just is better then being unjust. First, Plato asserts that there are three different types of goods and justice falls into the category of being good not only ‘for its consequences’ but also ‘for its own sake’ . Conversely, Glaucon claims that morality and justice are based solely on convenience, and that it is natural to pursue one’s own interests. Furthermore, justice is seen as the difference of two evils: the first, being forced to restrain oneself from certain self-interests, and the other being the possibility of becoming the victim of injustice from another person. The first problem that Plato and Glaucon debate is whether justice is goo...
