
Melissa Lane on Plato and Sustainability
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The Relationship of Individual Virtues and Knowledge in Achieving Sustainable Social Order
Plato's yeast is the relationship of individual virtues which have to be informed by knowledge in aiming at the social good. That individual virtues actually produce actions and are reinforced by actions that help us to stabilize a valuable and sustainable social order. So I would be far from saying what we want is individual action and not political action, absolutely.
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