The Lure of Injustice  

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Harriott, Howard H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network vol. 2 no. 3 (Sep. 1995), page 130-140.
Topik: Lure of Injustice
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In a justifiably famous passage in Plato’s Gorgias,2 Socrates discusses whether or not the truly wicked, those who perpetrate injustices against humankind, can be happy. This issue has been the subject of countless commentaries by moral philosophers. In the end, Socrates comes to the reassuring conclusion that the unjust cannot really be happy. It is well known of course that Socrates argues for what is called by one writer “the supreme crowning paradox”3 of Socratic ethics: Socrates makes the case that the worst thing that can hap¬pen to a person is that he or she should commit some terrible wrong and escape the corrective influence of justice. This supremely paradoxical-sounding insight is important not only for what it tells us about Socratic thinking on ethical matters, but more importantly because of the way that the conclusion that Socrates desperately wants to draw — that the perpetrators of injustice are miserable and ultimately suffer — is one that has stimulated moral inquiry. It has led to the search by many philosophers for a master argument which might show that whatever lure immorality might have for us. it is not only bad for us, but it is ultimately irrational for us to be unjust.

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