'I have spoken as if the political circumstances and public actions of the Greek states gave rise to the irreligious and utilitarian moral theories of the thinkers and teachers, but it is more likely that practice and theory acted and reacted mutually on one another....In Plato's opinion it was not they (and, by implication, Socrates) who should be blamed for infecting the young with pernicious thoughts, for they were doing no more than mirror the lusts and passions of the existing democracy....', Guthrie, V. 3, p 20, Plato, Republic, 493a. My comment in parenthesis.
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