Plato's Republic is one of the oldest books still read in our society, but it is still very popular and brings up questions that still have yet to be answered. I think we have failed to answer the questions in this book and are still intrigued with it after thousands of years is because the questions either simply have no answer, or have an answer that changes depending on who's is answering them. For example, the definition of justice is so obscure, how one person interprets it is almost never the same as how someone else defines it.
In the book one thing I noticed about how Plato described justice, was that he never talked about how anyone would be punished for crimes. I believe the reason that he never mentioned how people would be punished is because he believes that in a just society, there will be no crimes to punish. He thinks justice is not the enforcement of laws and the punishment of crimes, but the lack of crime altogether.
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