these desires should be allowed to seek fulfillment. He must not starve himself of necessary or innocent desires that the soul has because they to must be allowed to perform there given duties or roles in the body. These desires are such things as the need for food, water, shelter, clothing and other fundamental needs to sustain a person as an individual. In addition to the reasoning and the fulfilling of necessary desires, another important needed factor exists. This factor is the presence of human emotions. The emotions in the soul must be allowed to exist as well as function properly in order to be healthy and allow openness to growth. The emotions and desires must never get out of control, reach insanity to the point were they master over the soul instead of the reasoning. The overall importance behind all of this would be the fact that man’s reasoning must remain stable over man’s abstraction in order for him to be looked upon as a just man. With these philosophies that have been explored and explained, Plato arrives at a very general yet relatively simple conclusion. That is, a just mans mind will overall be in order.Epicurus also presents his insight of what qualifies a man to be just. His views on this subject are somewhat vague and do not entail as much description as those of Plato’s. To Epicurus justice in men is more reliant upon external stimuli and physical characteristics, both of which are very materialistic. In his beliefs concerning the nature of a person, he didn’t believe in any incorporeal soul, rather he simply said it didn’t exist. He says, “The just life is most free from disturbance, but the unjust life is full of the greatest disturbance” (Epicurus 22). This definition of justice is universal by it’s nature according to him. In the days of Epicurus, justice was considered to be a written argument between people that they would neither harm someone ...
