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[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you need an example of this read republic book 1.

Socrates essentially just dunks on these guys that are trying to define justice.

One of them says that justice is doing good to your friends and evil to your enemies

The way that socrates reubuts this argument is that the fella in question doesn't define friends, enemies, good, or evil, so how can he expect to come up with an idea of what justice is before first defining these other concepts that are meaningful to us because of their common usage, but can be twisted greatly in logical argumentation.

[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like the part where one guy goes, "Justice is paying your debts" and Socrates goes, "oh yeah? so it would be just for me to return the gun my friend loaned me, when he comes back requesting it in a murderous frenzy? Yeah, that's what I thought."

And the guy just leaves lol

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 0 points 3 weeks ago

Smartest man involved, cephalus was!

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

And yet? We're still no further along. 🤷🏽‍♂️🤪