Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato And Dante

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n with a natural function. It is the expectation that they will perform the function. Therefore justice is the performance of one’s natural function. Furthermore, happiness will come from everybody performing their natural function in society. This is interpretation of justice serves as a basis for Plato’s ideal state. His notion of justice is that if people perform their natural function, then their society will be just as a whole. Individual justice is interrelated with societal justice.

#5. Moira - Ancient Greek word for what has been fated or predetermined. Every thing does not depend on free will. In Sophocles’ Oedipus it’s a conflict between fate and the choice of action. King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes attempted to prevent the prophesy from happening by giving Oedipus away to be killed. Oedipus also does everything in his power to attempt to prevent his fate yet to no avail. He murders his father and marries his mother despite all efforts to prevent the events prophesized by the Oracle at Delphi. He does this unknowingly and he himself is responsible for revealing the realization of his fate through his obstinate determination to discover what is plaguing his kingdom.
#2. Eidos – What is seen – figure, shape or form. Plato relates this con...