Wisdom is necessary to determine the capacity and limits imposed upon the warrior class to carry out this task.

Temperance deals with self-control and moderation. The state must be aware of its limits and determine the point at which excesses are achieved and learn to moderate them, or to deter itself from indulgence. Wisdom will help to establish discipline and ensure that excesses are not reached, or how to scale back and reduce gluttony and excess. Wisdom allows for the state, and individual, to reach a healthy medium between excess and deficiency. The ruler must also be wise enough to not put their state in peril, nor to engage in unnecessary warfare or expansion.

Justice is the culmination of wisdom, temperance, and courage. Justice may be broken down into two categories, societal and individual. Societal justice is the political arrangement in which an individual is expected to play an appropriate...
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