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1. Plato Part 5 Summarized Notes

2. Plato’s Ethics Contd. In Christian ethics, the greatest virtue, the all embracing virtue or “the mother of all virtues” is love but in Greek ethics it is justice. Plato rejects two notions of justice current in his time. According to one of them, justice is the interest of the stronger, i.e. might is right Plato rejects this notion of justice which he attributes to the Sophists

3. Plato’s Ethics Contd. The other notion of justice equally rejected by Plato is that justice consists in doing good to one’s friends and doing evil to one’s enemies. Plato rejected this on the grounds that it is never good to do evil, even if it means doing it to one’s enemies A Just man should not make an unjust man worse, otherwise he too will become unjust A Man does not become morally better by making his enemy worse

4. Plato’s Ethics Contd. For Plato all virtue are fundamentally one, for they are different expressions of (or different ways of looking at) at the rule of reason over man and all human activities. Hence, it is impossible, in Plato’s view, to have one virtue and lack another. For to have one virtue is to have all and to lack one is to lack all of them. A person is therefore either completely virtuous or completely vicious