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Jowett: disgraceful acts

quinta-feira 1º de fevereiro de 2024, por Cardoso de Castro

  

Socrates   : In wrestling also, then, he who performs bad and disgraceful acts voluntarily is a better wrestler than he who performs them involuntarily. LESSER HIPPIAS

Socrates : This more powerful and wiser soul, then, was found to be better and to have more power to do both good and disgraceful acts in every kind of action was it not ? LESSER HIPPIAS

Socrates : Whenever, then, it does disgraceful acts, it does them voluntarily, by reason of power and art ; and these, either one or both of them, are attributes of justice. LESSER HIPPIAS