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but is not really so seems but is not really the friend.
And there will be the same assumption about the enemy.”
“Then on this view it appears the friend will be the good man and
the bad the enemy.” “Yes.” “So you
would have us qualify our former notion of the just man by an addition. We
then said it was just to do good to a friend and evil to an enemy, but now
we are to add that it is just to benefit the friend if he is good and harm
the enemy if he is bad?”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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