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and evil, do you
not?” “I do.” “Is your notion of
them the same as mine?” “What is it?”
“That which destroys and corrupts in every case is the evil; that
which preserves and benefits is the good.” “Yes, I think
so,” he said. “How about this: Do you say that there is
for everything its special good and evil,
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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