Transition to Plato
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Abstract This chapter begins by summing up the results of the 5th Century debate and by highlighting its philosophical significance. Despite offering impressive responses to the Moral Cynics and making notable contributions to early ethical and political thought, the Friends of Justice failed to prove that justice is more profitable than injustice. The chapter next argues that that Plato was keenly aware of this debate: not only was he interested in the sophists quite generally, but two dialogues in particular include arguments very much like those made by the 5th Century Cynics and the Friends. Gorgias features a pair of interlocutors who believe that injustice is more profitable than justice, one of whom also advocates an extreme sort of hedonism reminiscent of certain Cynics. Protagoras includes a sophist who offers a defence of justice so close to the one earlier found in the Anonymous Iamblichi that they must be two iterations of the same argument.
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Merrick Anderson
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