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Full Idea
The thing to do is to sin first and sacrifice afterwards from the proceeds.
Gist of Idea
Sin first, then sacrifice to the gods from the proceeds
Source
Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 365e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Republic', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1993], p.54
A Reaction
A bit like Graham Greene's Catholicism. One Greek view of the gods seems to be that they are quite myopic and naïve.
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| 2377 | No one who admitted to not keeping contracts could ever be accepted as a citizen [Hobbes] |
| 2379 | If there is a good reason for breaking a contract, the same reason should have stopped the making of it [Hobbes] |
| 22499 | We all know that just pretending to be someone's friend is not the good life [Foot] |
| 4116 | A weakness of contractual theories is the position of a person of superior ability and power [Williams,B] |
| 3896 | Any social theory of morality has the problem of the 'free rider', who only pretends to join in [Scruton] |