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if we were
right in our previous agreement about the nature of justice.”
“But surely,” he said, “we were
right.” “Let us sum up,1 then,” said I, “the most
evil type of man. He is, I presume, the man who, in his waking hours, has
the qualities we found in his dream state.” “Quite
so.” “And he is developed from the man who, being by
nature most of a tyrant, achieves sole power, and the longer he lives as an
actual tyrant the stronger this quality becomes.”
“Inevitably,” said Glaucon, taking up the
argument.“And shall we
find,” said I, “that the man who is shown to be the most
evil
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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