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& < A foolish 'Child is sometimes pleaded ?{ CL 4 ¥ es ? & And a foolish man ?* C . 4 1 should think so ; but what of that V . Si ? Nothing , only answer me . And a rational man is semetiines phased , mid 19 also sometimes vexed . C * Yts / £ . * Whether aie foolish persons , or k
rational persons , pleased and vexed in the highest degree ? ' C . I do not think there \ t much difference / 8 . fc That is enough . You have seen coward a in war V C . ' Certainly / S . * Whether were the cowar d * , or the brave men , most pleased at the retreat of the enemy V C . ' Much the same / S . * It is sufficient . Then cowards and foolish
people are sometimes pleased . But when the enemy advance , are- the cowards alone vexed , or the brave men also ? ' & * 80 th / & * Both equally ? ' ( 7 . ? The cowards , perhaps , in the greatest degree / 8 . 'And on the enemy ' s retreat , are not the cowards also the most pleased V C . ' Perhaps / S . * Then rational people and foolish people , brave men and cowards , are pleased , you say , nearly in the same degree , or cowards more so than brave men . C * Yes / S , f Bat brave and
rational people are good , foolish people and cowards are bad . C . * Yes / & ' Then good people and bad people are pleased and vexed alike / C . ' Yes / & ' Are good people and bad people good and bad alike ? or bad people rather more good and bad than good people V C . * I do not understand you . ' < SL ' Did you not say , that good people are good by the presence oi Good m them , and bad people by the presence of Evil and that Good is Pleasure , and Evil is Pain I C . ' I did . *
S . Then a person who is pleased , has Good present in him , since pleasure is Good / C . ' Certainly / S . * Then he is a good man / C * Yes . ' S . ' And a person who is vexed , has Evil present in him , since pain is Evil . ' C . ' Yes * . S . ' But men are bad men by die presence of Evil in them . Do you not say bo ? C . * 1 do / & . * Then good men are those who are pleased , and bad men are those who are vexed / C . \* Certainly / S . Those are more good or bad , who are more pleased or vexed ; those who are less , less ; those who are equally , equally / 4
C C . ' Yes / S S . / Did vou hot sav . that rational people and foolish people . . Yes / . / Did you hot say , that rational people and foolish people , brave people and cowards , were pleased and vexed tolerably equally , or cowards even more so than the brave ? ' C . I did / if , See then what follows . The good man is the rational and brave man , the bad man is the fooiish man and the coward . But the good man is also the
man who is pleased , the bad man he who is raxed . And the good mnd the bad man are pleased and vexed equally , or the bad man rather more so than the good man . It follows therefore , that the bad man is equally good and equally bad with the good man , or rather more so . Is not this inevitable , if the Good and the Pleasant are the same ? 4
I have listened to yoa / answered CaHiclss * ' for a longtime , tmi admitted sell that you said , being aware that if o » e concedes anything to you even in jest , you eagerly seise hold of it liks a raw y « wtk 1 ) 6 you suppose that I , or any body else , do not think that some pleasures * re better , and others worse ? * —* You treat nt « , ' tfspfad Soetatesv * like
* ctild , sometimes affirming one thing , semetmts a dtffeftnt thiftg , and fceiring me . I did not think at first that ymy who at » ny ) tt « ie * ii W <* deceive me intsuttonaHy . Bat now I Suppose I to * s % f s « sMb ^* e old saying , mriie the Us * of « rbat I **» fat . 'You * Hf » thtftf ; wt amae pU * aur * t are good , mod ether * # vtL' < % * I d * V & * Are the good pleasure * thot * wfafoh ave btnrikfel , the bai l ***
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Plato ' s Dialogues ; the Qorgia * . 811
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 811, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/65/
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