Ethics in Plato's Republic

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 20:19-32 (1986)
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Why should I be just? What have I to gain if I am decent, honest, moral, upright, fair and truthful? Other people benefit if I am just, but do I? And doesn't it seem clear that sometimes the benefit that other people receive from my being just is a benefit received at my expense? Perhaps then I have no adequate reason to be just. Perhaps if I have any sense I will not bother.

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Colloquium 3: The Unjust Philosophers of Republic VII.Roslyn Weiss - 2012 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 27 (1):65-103.

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