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    Injustice

    idea · 6 works · 14 mentions · 26 anchored passages

    injustice · the unjust · unjust · meddlesomeness · unjust man · acting unjustly · covetousness · doing injustice · reaching out for more · substitution of classes

    in the texts

    RepublicClassical · Greek

    The vice under dispute, claimed by Thrasymachus to be more profitable and powerful than justice, but shown by Socrates to produce faction, hatred, and incapacity.

    You affirm that perfect and complete injustice is more profitable than justice that is complete.
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    A far weightier matter seems to me Thrasymachus’s present statement, his assertion that the life of the unjust man is better than that of the just.
    chapter 1
    For I tell you for my part that I am not convinced, neither do I think that injustice is more profitable than justice, not even if one gives it free scope and does not hinder it of its will.
    chapter 1

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    The vice opposed to Justice: the disposition to act unlawfully or unfairly, taking more than one's due of goods or less than one's due of evils.

    in such a case, though he has committed injustice, he is not an unjust man:
    chapter 5
    for example, if just has more than one meaning, so also has unjust and Injustice.
    chapter 5
    The fact is that it is not the same with dispositions as with sciences and faculties.
    chapter 5

    On the PeaceClassical · Greek

    The false path of gain through taking others' possessions, linked to imperial domination and eventual ruin.

    for they see that we are not content with what we have but are always reaching out for more.
    on the peace
    For if we define this clearly and intelligently, we shall take better counsel in the light of this principle regarding our other interests as well.
    on the peace
    For do not think that Cersobleptes will wage war with us over the Chersonese, or Philip over Amphipolis, when they see that we do not covet any of the possessions of other peoples.
    on the peace

    On Virtues and VicesClassical · Greek

    The vice of the whole soul, opposite of justice

    There are three kinds of injustice:
    on virtues and vices
    Injustice is a vice of the soul, by which men become grasping for more than their due.
    on virtues and vices
    and the vices of the soul as a whole are injustice, illiberality, and smallness of soul.
    on virtues and vices

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Wrongdoing among men, distinguished from impiety toward the gods, applied to the treatment of benefactors.

    Nor again is it possible to say that this is not the greatest of the things given to some;
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    And this is worse than that, by as much as to do wrong oneself is worse than not greatly to restrain another.
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    This it was that made certain of the Lacedaemonians array themselves in the narrows against so many myriads of Persians.
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    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    Wrongdoing treated as lying, deceit, harmful action, unlawful conduct, and disobedience to just laws.

    Under justice, I think.
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    What about doing mischief?
    chapter 4
    Deceit, too, is found, is it not?
    chapter 4