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Single Idea 119
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice
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Full Idea
Socrates: A criminal is worse off if he doesn't pay the penalty, and continues to do wrong without getting punished.
Gist of Idea
A criminal is worse off if he avoids punishment
Source
Plato (Gorgias [c.378 BCE], 472e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Gorgias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP World's Classics 1994], p.46
The
27 ideas
from 'Gorgias'
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In "Gorgias" Socrates is confident that his 'elenchus' will decide moral truth
[Vlastos on Plato]
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4320
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The popular view is that health is first, good looks second, and honest wealth third
[Plato]
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114
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Rhetoric can produce conviction, but not educate people about right and wrong
[Plato]
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4321
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We should test one another, by asking and answering questions
[Plato]
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116
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Rhetoric is irrational about its means and its ends
[Plato]
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118
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I would rather be a victim of crime than a criminal
[Plato]
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24223
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Admirable people are happy, and unjust people are miserable
[Plato]
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119
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A criminal is worse off if he avoids punishment
[Plato]
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120
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Should we avoid evil because it will bring us bad consequences?
[Plato]
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122
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Moral rules are made by the weak members of humanity
[Plato]
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123
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Do most people like equality because they are second-rate?
[Plato]
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124
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Does nature imply that it is right for better people to have greater benefits?
[Plato]
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125
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Is a gifted philosopher unmanly if he avoids the strife of the communal world?
[Plato]
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128
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Is it natural to simply indulge our selfish desires?
[Plato]
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129
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Do most people praise self-discipline and justice because they are too timid to gain their own pleasure?
[Plato]
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130
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Is the happiest state one of sensual, self-indulgent freedom?
[Plato]
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131
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If absence of desire is happiness, then nothing is happier than a stone or a corpse
[Plato]
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4319
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In a fool's mind desire is like a leaky jar, insatiable in its desires, and order and contentment are better
[Plato]
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132
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If happiness is the satisfaction of desires, then a life of scratching itches should be happiness
[Plato]
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4322
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In slaking our thirst the goodness of the action and the pleasure are clearly separate
[Plato]
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134
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Good and bad people seem to experience equal amounts of pleasure and pain
[Plato]
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135
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All activity aims at the good
[Plato]
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136
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Good should be the aim of pleasant activity, not the other way round
[Plato]
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137
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As with other things, a good state is organised and orderly
[Plato]
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139
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A good person is bound to act well, and this brings happiness
[Plato]
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140
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Self-indulgent desire makes friendship impossible, because it makes a person incapable of co-operation
[Plato]
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141
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A good citizen won't be passive, but will redirect the needs of the state
[Plato]
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