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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'On Eternal and Immutable Morality' and 'Letter Seven'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics

168	To understand morality requires a soul [Plato]
	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.