[610b]
and show that we are mistaken,
or,1 so long as it remains unrefuted, we must never say that by
fever or any other disease, or yet by the knife at the throat or the
chopping to bits of the entire body, there is any more likelihood of the
soul perishing because of these things, until it is proved that owing to
these affections of the body the soul itself becomes more unjust and unholy.
But when an evil of something else occurs in a different thing and the evil
that belongs to the thing is not engendered in it,
1 For the challenge to refute or accept the argument Cf. Soph. 259 A, 257 A, Gorg. 467 B-C, 482 B, 508 A-B, Phileb. 60 D-E.
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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