1. Plato: - The Republic (Book I) And Others
... courage (presumably because of a lack of courage in most cases). Book II - Book II contains some profound insights into the nature of the just and the unjust. The idea is to make a story where we strip someone of all extrinsic inclinations to be just (like reputation, fear of being caught). This is the ... writing long tracts trying to reconcile the 'science' of his day and the theology of Christianity, mostly by using Aristotle. The piece we read is pretty short, but here is the basic idea: Man is essentially rational, which for Aquinas means essentially virtuous. what makes virtues go...
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