philosophy outline6

 

Micro Outline # 6

477b-477d

1.  The man who is brought to justice is benefitted--Fact (from argument 476a-476b)

2.  A person is benefitted by losing his/her vice--1

3.  Vice is the greatest evil--Assertion

4.  [The soul is more important than the body]--Assertion

5.  The evils of the body are poverty and disease--Fact

6.  The evils of the soul are injustice--Fact

7.  The evils of the soul are more grievous than the evils of the body and one is benefitted 

by reforming from them--1-6

8.  The evils of the soul are uglier than those of the body--Assertion

9.  To be uglier is to be ultimately worse--Assertion

10.  To be "worse" is to be at less advantage and in greater pain--Assertion

11.  Wrongdoers have an evil soul--Fact

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12.  Wrongdoers are wretched--7-11 

Side argument

1.  Undergoing justice (for a wrongdoer) is to be punished--Fact

2.  Just as medicine cures illness, justice can cure injustice--Assertion

3.  Not being cured is more wretched than being cured--Assertion

4.  Those who are forever unjust never undergo justice--Fact

5.  Those who are forever unjust are never cured of their injustice--2,4

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6.  Those wrongdoers who are punished are happier than those who are forever unjust--1, 

3, 5