Plato expresses in the "Republic- that a person and later a state must aim to achieve the four principal virtues. ... If two men, one just and the other unjust, possess a ring that would make them invisible when warn and allow them to do as they please without detection, the two men, both the just and unjust alike, will seize the opportunity to be unjust unless he is a simpleton. ... It is only through the formulation of this hypothetical "ideal city- that he can arrive at a definition of justice, for to Plato, being the product of tumultuous, has little faith in virtues of mankind; only i...

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Though the gift of life is a virtue so invaluable that it would seem immensely farcical to throw it away, the reality of suicide is upsettingly prevalent in Canada, and all over the world. Though it seems stereotypically immoral, philosopher David Hume defended the act, labeling suicide as sometimes...

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