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from On the Republic of Plato: Essays 7–15
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2022
Socrates dealt with two arguments through which he supposes that the sameness of education and virtue for men and women is rendered unstable.98 One argument leads the doctrine to something contrary to received opinion (adoxos)99 (for, attempts to go from things that are contrary to received opinions have a capacity to refute (anatreptikos), while those that go from received opinions are persuasive (pithanos) relative to the propositions that are under examination). The other argument proceeds from what was agreed upon – [an assumption] through which he showed what justice is and arranged the entire political order.100
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