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“but what analogy to do you detect in
the inquiry about justice?” “I will tell you,”
I said: “there is a justice of one man, we say, and, I suppose,
also of an entire city.” “Assuredly,” said he.
“Is not the city larger1 than the man?” “It is
larger,” he said. “Then, perhaps, there would be more
justice in the larger object and more easy to apprehend. If it please you,
then,
1 So Aristotle Eth. Nic. i. 2. 8 (1094 b 10).
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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