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168 | To understand morality requires a soul |
Full Idea: Good and evil are meaningless to things that have no soul. | |||
From: Plato (Letter Seven [c.352 BCE], 334) | |||
A reaction: That is presumably psuché, and hence includes plants. Soulless things can still function well, but obviously that is not 'meaningful' to them. |