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Single Idea 124

[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 4. Economic equality ]

Full Idea

Callicles: We only have to look at nature to find evidence that it is right for better to have a greater share than worse.

Clarification

'Nature' is the Greek word 'physis'

Gist of Idea

Does nature imply that it is right for better people to have greater benefits?

Source

Plato (Gorgias [c.387 BCE], 483d)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Gorgias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP World's Classics 1994], p.66