The Republic, by Plato. Part I.
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The Nature and Origin of Justice
Socrates: I want to know what they are in themselves, and how they inwardly work in the soul. If you please, then, I will revive the argument of Tresemikus,. He said he would speak of the nature and origin of justice according to the common view of them. All men who practice justice do so against their will of necessity, but not as a good. And thirdly, I will argue that there is reason in this view, for the life of the unjust is after all better far than the lives of the just. But still, I acknowledge that I am perplexed when I hear the voices ofTresemikus and millions of others dinning in
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