in trade for not being harmed. It was an extremely critical idea, as well as, a useful tool in the every day social relationships concerning the people of that time period. To Epicurus, the definition of justice was never anything except a written contract. Along with this injustice was something bad and that the people lived in fear of punishment from those who held the power to enflict it. He states that no one should break a written contract and not live in fear of being punished for any of the actions that he has committed to break it. Epicurus also discussed about nature’s justice and this focused on the previously stated fact of the contracts between the people. Therefore, the view that Epicurus held on the subject of justness or what made a man just, to him it was a very external thing based on environmental surroundings and physical being.My opinion of what makes someone a just person is a very similar to the ideas that Plato has instilled in his writing. To explain myself further, I think there are a couple different things that I believe are necessary for man to be rightfully considered just. I agree with Plato’s ideas in that I think that the justness of a man is an internal process varying by each man’s separate personality. I say this agreeing with all the things that Plato stated as well as a couple of my one personal believes in addition to that. I feel that having a well-balanced soul is a very important part of being a just person. Being a just person is the result of personal experience incorporated with moral value. To build upon this, I believe that your first-hand experience in life contributes to your soul to the extent that it forms balance and equality in an entity that is so emotionally based on soul. Part of being just also deals with having a concern for others and I feel that in order to be a just man you must take into consideration your reasoning in compliance with the God-giv...
