Exegesis (df).: critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of scripture…(Oxford dictionary) Write a 500-600 word exegesis of the following passage from Book 2 of Plato’s Republic. You’ll have to pay attention to the surrounding context and statements at the beginning of Book 2 from which the passage is extracted. Additional Hint: Socrates does not himself seem to believe that justice is a “form of drudgery” even though “the many,” he suggests, believes just that. Other guidelines: 1. Due Friday, April 1 (no foolin’) in your individual discussion sections. Passage “I, for my part, suppose,” I said, “that it [justice] belongs in the finest kind, which the man who is going to be blessed should like both for itself and for what comes out of it.” “Well that’s not the opinion of the many,” he said, “rather it [justice] seems to belong to a form of drudgery…” (358a).
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