Combining Texts

Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intro to 'Rationality in Greek Thought'' and 'Principle Doctrines ('Kuriai Doxai') (frags)'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

1 idea

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 1. Contractarianism

3560	Justice is merely a contract about not harming or being harmed [Epicurus]
	Full Idea: There is no such things as justice in itself; in people's relations with one another in any place and at any time it is a contract about not harming or being harmed.
	From: Epicurus (Principle Doctrines ('Kuriai Doxai') (frags) [c.290 BCE], 33), quoted by Julia Annas - The Morality of Happiness 13.2