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with the aid of the like in
ourselves, have set up in its place a similar guardian and ruler in the
child, and then, and then only, we leave it free.” “Yes,
that is plain,” he said. “In what way,1 then,
Glaucon, and on what principle, shall we say that it profits a man to be
unjust or licentious or do any shameful thing that will make him a worse
man, but otherwise will bring him more wealth or power?”
“In no way,” he said. “And how that it pays
him to escape detection in wrongdoing and not pay the penalty2?
1 Cf. on 501 D, p. 74, note a.
2 The paradoxes of the Gorgias are here seriously reaffirmed. Cf. especially Gorg. 472 E ff., 480 A-B, 505 A-B, 509 A f. Cf. also Vol. I. p. 187, 380 Bοἱ δὲ ὠνίναντο κολαζόμενοι, and Laws 728 C; and for the purpose of punishment, What Plato Said, p. 495, on Protag. 324 A-B.
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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