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When at the end of the discussion Polus agrees, he is reluctant: ‘It sounds extraordinary to me, Socrates, but I suppose that it is consistent with our previous discussion’ (480). Socrates pretends that Polus’ own words have committed him to this conclusion and that he has deduced it from Polus’ own claims and admissions. The most crucial of these was that it is baser to do wrong than to suffer it. There was, however, nothing in what Polus had said to force him to agree with this.
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Weil (1959) p. 99. Her claim is that in worshipping force one turns one’s back on what she calls ‘the light of charity’. When she says that to do so is to be deceived, her claim, as we have seen, is not a morally neutral one.
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Dilman, İ. (1979). Callicles on Morality and Nature. In: Morality and the Inner Life. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04797-0_6
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