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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: nor evil, or simply evil, we do not will. Why are you silent, Polus? Am I
not right?
POLUS: You are right.
SOCRATES: Hence we may infer, that if any one, whether he be a tyrant or a
rhetorician, kills another or exiles another or deprives him of his
property, under the idea that the act is for his own interests when really
not for his own interests, he may be said to do what seems best to him?
POLUS: Yes.
SOCRATES: But does he do what he wills if he does what is evil? Why do
you not answer?
POLUS: Well, I suppose not.
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