Rhetoricians, and most notably the Sophists, were believers in nomos. Philosophers, for example Plato, were believers in Physis. Nomos is loosely translated as LAW; while PHYSIS is loosely translated as nature. Those who believed in NOMOS argued that reality, and therefore human understanding of that reality, was a product of human action. In other words, ... the community. "Plato uses this image to make the connection between the harmonious, internally just person on the one hand and the socially just person on the other. To be unjust to others is to allow the beast within to rule, to overw...

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