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and makes him believe that this thing
is no more honorable than it is base,1 and when
he has had the same experience about the just and the good and everything that
he chiefly held in esteem, how do you suppose that he will conduct himself
thereafter in the matter of respect and obedience to this traditional
morality?” “It is inevitable,” he said,
“that he will not continue to honor and obey as before.”
“And then,” said I, “when he ceases to honor these
principles and to think that they are binding on him,2 and cannot discover the true principles,
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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