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Single Idea 346
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice
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Full Idea
One ought not to return a wrong or an injury to any person, whatever the provocation is.
Gist of Idea
One ought not to return a wrong or injury to any person, whatever the provocation
Source
Socrates (reports of last days [c.399 BCE]), quoted by Plato - Crito 49b
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Last Days of Socrates', ed/tr. Tredennick,Hugh [Penguin 1969], p.88
A Reaction
The same as the essential moral teachings of Jesus (see Idea 6288) and Lao Tzu (Idea 6324). The big target is not to be corrupted by the evil of other people.
Related Ideas
Idea 6288
Don't resist evil, but turn the other cheek [Jesus]
Idea 6324
To gain in goodness, treat as good those who are good, and those who are not [Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
The
30 ideas
with the same theme
[correct behaviour towards other people]:
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5244
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For Pythagoreans, justice is simply treating all people the same
[Pythagoras, by Aristotle]
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441
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Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon
[Epicharmus]
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346
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One ought not to return a wrong or injury to any person, whatever the provocation
[Socrates]
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119
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A criminal is worse off if he avoids punishment
[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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266
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Injustice is the mastery of the soul by bad feelings, even if they do not lead to harm
[Plato]
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2092
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Simonides said morality is helping one's friends and harming one's enemies
[Plato]
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23562
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If the parts of our soul do their correct work, we will be just people, and will act justly
[Plato]
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5151
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Justice concerns our behaviour in dealing with other people
[Aristotle]
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4389
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What emotion is displayed in justice, and what are its deficiency and excess?
[Urmson on Aristotle]
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5240
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The word 'unjust' describes law-breaking and exploitation
[Aristotle]
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5242
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Justice is whatever creates or preserves social happiness
[Aristotle]
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23556
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Particular justice concerns specific temptations, but universal justice concerns the whole character
[Aristotle]
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5261
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Between friends there is no need for justice
[Aristotle]
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22553
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Justice is a virtue of communities
[Aristotle]
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14513
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Justice is a pledge of mutual protection
[Epicurus]
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500
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the person wronged
[Democritus (attr)]
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6001
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Justice is a disposition to distribute according to desert
[Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank]
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6288
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Don't resist evil, but turn the other cheek
[Jesus]
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6822
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Those who avenge themselves when wronged incur no guilt
[Mohammed]
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23177
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Justice directs our relations with others, because it denotes a kind of equality
[Aquinas]
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2376
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Injustice is the failure to keep a contract, and justice is the constant will to give what is owed
[Hobbes]
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23560
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If we all naturally had everything we could ever desire, the virtue of justice would be irrelevant
[Hume]
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3922
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Justice only exists to support society
[Hume]
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14816
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Justice (fairness) originates among roughly equal powers (as the Melian dialogues show)
[Nietzsche]
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4559
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When powerless one desires freedom; if power is too weak, one desires equal power ('justice')
[Nietzsche]
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22472
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The practice of justice may well need a recognition of human equality
[Foot]
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22479
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Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees
[Foot]
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8001
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'Dikaiosune' is justice, but also fairness and personal integrity
[MacIntyre]
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4286
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Only just people will drop their own self-interests when faced with an impartial verdict
[Scruton]
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