The Psychology of Justice in Plato: a Response to Cooper

Previously unpublished comments on John Cooper’s paper “The Psychology of Justice in Plato” (American Philosophical Quarterly 14 (1977) 151-157). These comments were presented, as they appear here, along with Cooper’s paper, in a symposium at the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Portland, Oregon, March 1977. Since Cooper’s paper has been several times anthologized and is by now (May, 2009) considered a classic in the field, it seemed appropriate to make these comments publicly available. They are unchanged from the APA version except that references to Cooper now conform to the pagination in the version subsequently published in APQ.