abstract:Some Plato scholars have recently argued that the "City of Pigs"—described in Book II of the Republic, before Socrates goes on to describe Kallipolis and the definition of justice—is better and more just than Kallipolis itself. I argue that this interpretation misconstrues Plato's conception of justice by ignoring three significant conditions that he establishes for making an entity eligible for being just. In overlooking these conditions, scholars have misconceived the definition of justice itself, resulting in an overestimation of the virtue of the City of Pigs.

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为什么不只是猪和时钟之城

摘要：一些柏拉图学者最近认为，在苏格拉底继续描述卡利波利斯和正义的定义之前，共和国第二卷中描述的“猪城”比卡利波利斯本身更好、更公正。我认为这种解释误解了柏拉图的正义观，因为忽略了柏拉图为使实体有资格成为正义而建立的三个重要条件。由于忽视了这些条件，学者们错误地理解了正义本身的定义，导致高估了猪城的美德。