28 - Plato's Republic 11: A Tyrant's Life
Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast
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How Being Just Is Profitable
When you're just, when you submit all parts of the soul to reason, not only do you get the highest pleasures, the pleasures of reason, philosophy, stuff like that, you also do a better job. You satisfy your appetites in a reasonable way, so you avoid the tyrant spiral and in the end wind up getting more pleasure than you would if you pursued it directly. So all that, ultimately, is Socrates's answer to the initial question of how being just is profitable. Why glock on an out of mantis should be good even when they can get away with being bad. It'll keep their soul in shape. And now that Socrates has made his argument for why it
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