Why Does Evil Exist? (Plato) - a podcast by Dre Carlan

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“Now of the divine, he himself was the creator, but the creation of the mortal he committed to his offspring. And they, imitating him, received from him the immortal principle of the soul; and around this they proceeded to fashion a mortal body, and made it to be the vehicle of the soul and constructed within the body a soul of another nature which was mortal, subject to terrible and irresistible affections-first of all, pleasure, the greatest incitement to evil;...”
-Timaeus


“...those who make pleasure their good are in equal perplexity; for they are compelled to admit that there are bad pleasures as well as good...and therefore to acknowledge that bad and good are the same?”
-Republic, 6.505c


“...there is an absolute beauty and an absolute good, and of other things to which the term “many” is applied there is an absolute; for they may be brought under a single idea, which is called the essence of each.”
Republic, 6.507b

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