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Ethics in Plato's Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Nicholas Denyer
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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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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 20: Philosophers Ancient and Modern , March 1986 , pp. 19 - 32
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1986

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References

1 Hence I am in thorough disagreement with Lee, H. D. P., Plato: the Republic (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1955), 28–29.Google Scholar

2 On the difficulties in translating these words see Lee, , op. cit.Google Scholar in note 1 above, 184–185.