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Just State In Plato ;a Critical Exposition
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1.6.3 Aristophanes (448-380BC)
He was
a critique of the democracy of his time due to its ridiculous practice
of Justice. His attack was highly based on the fact the democrats failed
to abolish private property and the institution of marriage. For him,
these were the causes of inequalities among the citizens. Thus, he
advocates for communism where he believed that righteousness or justice
could be maintained. And as he said it, “…will abolish poverty,
eliminate the ubiquitous Athenian lawsuits, introduce genuine equality,
and destroy crimeâ€7.
For him, there was nothing natural about war,
for it destroyed so large a part of Athenian life due to the fact that
men had departed from the paths of justice, which had somehow been
formerly enshrined in the traditional order8. He advocates for the
restoration of old order, thereby eliminating both the disease of the
polis internally and the disintegration caused by war in the external
scene. Advocating for equal share and proposition of communism where he
thought that Justice would be maintained in its fullest.
1 Cf. S. E. Stumpf, Philosophy: History and Problem 5th Ed (New York: McGraw Hill Inc., 1994), p.4
2
Cf. T. Okere, African Philosophy: A Historico-Hermeneutical
Investigation of the Conditions of its Possibility (USA: University
Press of America Inc., 1983), p. 60
3 Cf. S. E. Stumpf Op. Cit, p. 32
4 Ibid, p 33
5 Ibid, p. 34
6 J. I. Omoregbe, Simplified History of Western Philosophy, Op cit, p. 32
7
Cf. M. Q. Sibley, Political Ideas and Ideologies: A History of
Political Thought (New York: Harper and Row Publishers,
1970), p. 53
8 Ibid, p. 54
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