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Full Idea
Callicles: It's the weaklings who constitute the majority of the human race who make the rules.
Gist of Idea
Moral rules are made by the weak members of humanity
Source
Plato (Gorgias [c.387 BCE], 483b)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Gorgias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP World's Classics 1994], p.65
A Reaction
An aristocrat bemoans democracy. Presumably the qualification for being a 'weakling' is shortage of money. How strong are the scions of the aristocrats?
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| 24076 | A morality ranks human drives and actions, for the sake of the herd, and subordinating individuals [Nietzsche] |
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| 4514 | The basic tendency of the weak has always been to pull down the strong, using morality [Nietzsche] |
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