Originally Posted by
BladeRunner001
beautiful shave Carl...Nice to see someone also enjoys reading the Classics like Plato's Republic. That is a heavy read my friend. I love book II, with Glaucon's speech after Socrates silences Thrasymachus and steps in to defend that people don't practice justice for the sake of justice but in fear of what may happen to them if they don't:
"That those who practice it [justice], practice it constrained by want of power to act unjustly, we might better perceive if we do the following in thought : granting each one of them both, the just and the unjust, license to do as he wishes, let us then follow them closely to observe whither his desire (è epithumia) will lead each. We should then catch the just man in the act of following the same path as the unjust man on account of the advantage that every nature is led by its very nature to pursue as good, being diverted only by force of law toward the esteem of the equal. The license I am talking about would be supremely such if they were given the very same power as is said to have been given in the past to the ancestor of Gyges the Lydian....