#10 - What Is Justice? Plato's Republic: Book I
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How Are You in the Ways of Aphrodite?
Sophocles, who as active into his old age, am writing plays till he is very like in his nineties. He thinks, now that i'm old, i can do philosophy, because i'm not distracted with sex. So you have reason, and then you have passion. And being persuaded requires effort and thought. It's easier to have an opinion and keep it, not challenge it, not think about it, not consider it.
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