Essays Tagged: "350d"

Flaws in Socrates' Third Argument

(343b-344c). He argues: 1) that the just men are good and clever while the unjust ignorant and bad (350d), 2) that the unjust men always fight against each other and cannot accomplish anything (352c), ... That justice is desirable because it makes one wise does not fully convince that justice is virtue (350d). Socrates has still failed to fully define justice or virtue, such that the reader can doubt t ...

(6 pages) 101 0 3.4 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy