Relook at Platos Theory of Justice in Contexts of 21st Century

Plato was a great philosopher who was not satisfied with the political conditions in Athens prevailing at his time. In his philosophy Plato gives a prominent place to the idea of justice The Democracy had degenerated in to the Tyranny of ‘The Thirty’ which had gone down to such a low ebb that it had earned a name for taking wrong decisions and mismanagement. In real practice it was the rule of the ignorant. There was political mismanagement and rulers were the most selfish. Selfishness had divided the Athenian society. There were painful feature of democracy of those days and now if look at present context we found that a system where same features can be seen. This study try to find out the importance of the theory justice in the context of 21st century and nature of the justice which was advocated as the fundamental principle of a well order society.