stice and the just life. Plato reasons that justice is having a particular state of being. Justice is a function of the mind. Since reason separates us from nature, reason makes us superior to the rest of nature. Reason is our highest faculty and reason should be our highest goal. A life spent in pursuit of power, wealth, and honor is dominated by the spirit. Our reason gives us free will, thus a life dominated by spirit is not free, but a slave to itself, No one can be truly happy without a sense of limitation or balance. The spirited life becomes addicted to want , never realizing satisfaction. Like an animal the spirited man moves from one satiation to the next. However, a life dominated by reason, in which reason balances the spirited and appetitive natures to harmony, results in a good life. Thus the just person will have the appetitive, spirited, and reasoning aspects of the soul in harmony, with reason to guide and director of the passions and appetite. Lacking a concrete definition, justice would be the balance of the tripartite soul, with reason in control.Justice is a harmony between the tripartite soul in which reason guides the spirit and appetite. Justice is good in itself and good in its practical ends. Justice is educating desires, implementing the human faculty of reason. A just life leads to harmony, balance, and virtue. This is to what Plato ponders throughout the opening of The Republic and considers the great question amongst his peers....
