People and scenariosThe characters involved are Socrates (the narrator); Glaucon (Plato's brother); Adeimantus (another brother of Plato); Polemarchus; Mullet; Thrasymachus; Cleitophon; And others who were silent auditors. The setting is the home of Polemarchus and his father Cephalus in Piraeus. The dialogue is narrated by Socates the day after it took place to: Timaeus, Haemocates, Critias and an unnamed person. The structure of the dialogue Book I of the Republic focuses on a passion of Socrates, which does not define justice in its word meaning, but rather discover the very nature of justice. It aims to answer what justice is and is it more profitable than tyranny. In this dialogue, Plato spoke through his teacher Socrates, seeking a definition of justice. Socrates denied every definition suggested and introduced and refuted them with his unthinkable contradictions. Yet he offers no definition of justice: in his mind he was examining a definition of his own, taking advantage of this discussion to make sure it made respectable sense, before announcing it in his subsequent books. The discussion ends in confusion and everyone is left confused, even Socrates. The book opens with a description of the scene in which Socrates and his friend Glaucon (one of Plato's brothers) are returning from some religious festivals in Piraeus. The two men are ambushed by Adeimantus (another brother of Plato), Polemarchus who asks them in a rather friendly-harsh manner to come and sit with some friends and talk a bit. The discussion begins. Socrates begins to talk to the rich old man Cephalus and asks him about old age and its difficulties, in which Cephalus reports, that the old...... middle of paper ......willingly take them without compensation, unless than with the idea that they govern for the benefit not of themselves but of others?" Some preliminary answers immediately come to mind: the personal rewards obtained by doing a job well are commonly distinguished from its intrinsic purposes; the right people are rightly considered superior in intelligence and character to unjust ones; every society believes that justice (as conceived in that society) is morally obligatory; and justice is the proper virtue (Greek areth [aretê]) of the human soul could be satisfied with answers of this kind, Plato the philosopher the writer was not. There must be an answer that derives more fundamentally from the nature of reality (Plato: The State and the Soul). , 12/18/2011, http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2g.htm