... justice, or for caring about other people's interests" and moreover, that sanctioned ideas about justice are only held by the inferior who desire to suppress the power of those superior. The objective standards of produce a strong tension between Callicles and Socrates, as Socrates sees morality as the only way of life and Callicles claims that, "a correct conception of an admirable person, and of a ... morality, which could be considered unjust and therefore corrupting to his pupils, no to mention the audience. Upon researching Plato's views on objective standards of morality, we learn ...

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... be virtuous one must possess Merit, Valor, and have beneficial qualities. One must know and act upon what is good, what is right. Plato expresses in the "Republic- that a person and later a state must aim to achieve the four principal virtues. The four virtues consist of, courage, temperance, wisdom and justice. For Socrates a virtue is a particular thing or attribute. It is something possessed ... as "what ever is in the interest of the stronger party in a given state. People in power make laws and the weaker party is supposed to follow those laws.""(339D) Thus, according to Thrasymach...

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... morally obligatory for a person if and only if that action is required by the basic moral principles or standards accepted by that person's culture. Anthropologist Ruth Benedict uses the examples of homosexuality and murder, which are considered to many cultures as morally wrong. Benedict claims that in ancient Greece, as indicated by Plato's Republic, homosexuality was mostly approved and accepted. Homosexuality was "presented as one ... of the major means to good life. " (80) This clearly shows what it's believed to be immoral to one culture may be considered as moral and ... and wron...

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