that assumption is incorrect. Human history makes it quite clear that we are capable of using our reason to achieve evil ends. In fact, as Cleanthes highlights
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but spirituality/religion/supernaturalism hasone job, and it sucks at it, and this incompetence makes me angry, especially when we have people telling us that it has the answers to life’s great questions, and then when it comes down to it, all that its professionals can tell us is “We...
It is not possible to discover any other beginning of justice or any source for it other than from Zeus and from the universal nature, for thence everything of the kind must have its beginning if we are going to have anything to say about good and evil.[4]...
In other words, Glaucon argues, most people don’t care about justice for its own sake. Instead, they are only concerned with being perceived as being just by others. Further, he argues that we create laws only because the evil that results from becoming a victim of injustice is greater ...