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- “The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.” - Plato
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Oct 1, 2020 · what that looks like, we only need to look to the worst abuses of repressive regimes, from the “disappearances” under Argentina’s military dictatorship, investigative journalists on the streets of Europe being murdered, opposition leaders who are poisoned in Russia, to the murder and
Jun 14, 2024 · The worst form of injustice is pretended justice, as it allows systemic oppression to persist under the guise of benevolence. While Tubman's efforts were undoubtedly commendable, they were ultimately a response to a deeply flawed society that perpetuated the dehumanization of enslaved individuals.
Feb 24, 2019 · Democracy, in Plato’s view, is the worst form of government and would have a tendency toward self-dissolution. Since individuals, dominated by their own desires and lusts, would vie for power and become embroiled in political conflict, democracy would tend toward entropy.
May 12, 2020 · This analysis obscures the overarching argument of the Republic, and Plato’s insistence that the tyrant embodies the worst form of injustice. His injustice consists in his unwillingness to recognize any law that restrains his freedom: the very laws that make human society possibly by imposing limits on our exercise of power.
- Karen Margrethe Nielsen
- 2019
Plato defends justice in the Republic by arguing that when properly understood it can be seen to constitute the agent’s flourishing. The form of this defence has been much studied. The aim is to show that justice is good for the just person.
This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice;–it is a mean or compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice and not be punished, and the worst of all, which is to suffer injustice without the power of retaliation; and justice, being at a middle point between the two, is tolerated not as a good, but as the lesser ...
