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of effective action in common?” “By
all means.” “Suppose, then, it springs up between two,
will they not be at outs with and hate each other and be enemies both to one
another and to the just?” “They will,” he
said. “And then will you tell me that if injustice arises in
one1 it will lose its
force and function or will it none the less keep it?”
“Have it that it keeps it,” he said. “And is
it not apparent that its force is such that wherever it is found in city,
family, camp, or in anything else
1 The specific function must operate universally in bond or free, in many, two, or one. The application to the individual reminds us of the main argument of the Republic. Cf. 369 A, 433 D, 441 C. For the argument many, few or two, one, Cf. Laws 626 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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