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Ideas for 'talk', 'Art and Its Objects' and 'Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher'

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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime
Socrates was the first to grasp that a cruelty is not justified by another cruelty [Vlastos on Socrates]
In early Greece the word for punishment was also the word for vengeance [Vlastos]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality
A lover using force is a villain, but a seducer is much worse, because he corrupts character [Socrates, by Xenophon]