Plato Ethics

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             2. Orators have the least amount of power.
             3. Tyrant, are like Orators in that they have the least amount of power.
             4. Tyrant s and Orators do just about nothing they want to, though they certainly do whatever they see most fit to do. (do not do what that will, but only what they think best).
             5. [ 1 ] (having great power is a good for the one who has it).
             6. Doing what one sees fit without intelligence is bad.
             7. Tyrants and Orators do not do what they want to. .
             8. It is always the case (it is universally true) that: when one does anything thing [Z] in order to get (or for the sake of) something else [J] then, one always wants [J] and not the thing is doing [Z]. .
             9. If a person does anything (i.e. eats) for the sake of something else (i.e. a satisfied or full feeling.) then he does not want the thing he is doing, (eating.) Rather, he wants the thing for the sake of what he is doing (he wants a full or satisfied feeling.).
             10. [8] is = [9], and [9] is = [8].
             11. Everything is either good, bad or neither good nor bad. .
             12. Some good things are wisdom, health and wealth. .
             13. Not [9] = The reverse of these god things must be bad things (i.e. ignorance, illness and poverty.) [law of negation].
             14. Things that are neither good nor bad [13] are things which sometimes partake of what is good, sometimes of what is bad, and sometimes neither. (Walking, running or making sea voyages, or objects like sticks or stones and of the like. .
             15. Whenever one does things, one does the intermediate thing for the sake of the good things. It is because we peruse what is good that we do intermediate things, we suppose (i.e. we think) that it is better for us to do an intermediate thing instead of not doing it.
             16. It is for the sake of what is good that those who do all these things do them.
             17. [16] + ([8] or [9]) = We want those things that are good for oneself. We do not want those things that are intermediate (neither good nor bad), nor do we want those things that are bad for oneself (or harmful to oneself.