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your
entire life1 in the
consideration of this very matter. Do not then, I repeat, merely prove to us
in argument the superiority of justice to injustice, but show us what it is
that each inherently does to its possessor—whether he does or does
not escape the eyes of gods and men—whereby the one is good and
the other evil.”While I had always
admired the natural parts of Glaucon and Adeimantus, I was especially
1 Cf. 506 C.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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