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Ideas for 'Protagoras', 'Fragments' and 'Philebus'

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23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 2. Hedonism

377	If you lived a life of maximum pleasure, would you still be lacking anything? [Plato]

378	A life of pure pleasure with no intellect is the life of a jellyfish [Plato]

388	Hedonists must say that someone in pain is bad, even if they are virtuous [Plato]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / d. Teaching virtue

189	If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato]

188	Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato]

204	Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato]