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let us take up again the statement
with which we began and that has brought us to this pass.1 It
was, I believe, averred that injustice is profitable to the completely
unjust2 man who
is reputed just. Was not that the proposition?” “Yes,
that.” “Let us, then, reason with its proponent now that
we have agreed on the essential nature of injustice and just
conduct.” “How?” he said. “By
fashioning in our discourse a symbolic image of the soul, that the
maintainer of that proposition may see precisely what it is that he was
saying.”
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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