Dialogue Five: Justice and Injustice

Socrates Meets Jesus

Setting: The embers are cold now. Only starlight above them. The silence is heavy, but the conversation sharpens. This is where ideas collide.

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Socrates:
In my city, I spoke of justice as the soul rightly ordered. Wisdom governs, courage defends, desire obeys. If each part does its work, both man and society flourish. This is justice.

Jesus:
And yet, the city killed you.

Socrates (smiling faintly):
Yes. Even the just man can be crushed by the injustice of the many. But if his soul remains intact, he has lost nothing.

Jesus:
You protected your soul. I came to heal others’. You sought harmony within. I came to confront injustice without.