[340b]
And after these two assumptions
he again admitted that the stronger sometimes bid the inferior and their
subjects do what is to the disadvantage of the rulers. And from these
admissions the just would no more be the advantage of the stronger than the
contrary.” “O well,” said Cleitophon,
“by the advantage of the superior he meant what the superior
supposed to be for his advantage. This was what the inferior had to do, and
that this is the just was his position.” “That isn't
what he said,”
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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