The first premise of this argument is that: The state, like our parents, provides for us. ... When someone disobeys the laws of the state they do wrong first because in us he disobeys his parents, also those who brought him up, and because, in spite of his agreement, he neither obeys us nor, if we do something wrong, does he try to persuade us to do better"(26) . ... All information is taken from: Sophie's World: a Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder. 4. ... He is the philosophy that talks about how you can't step into the same river twice because it would b...

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