Alan RyanThinkers

The Good life is concerned with the development of all the public and private virtues that a successful state can shelter—military courage, marital fidelity, devotion to the physical and psychological welfare of our children, and so on.

The Good life is concerned with the pursuit of justice and the expansion of the human capacities used in political debate.

Karl Marx did not concern himself with rights and justice, but with an ethics of emancipation.

Karl Marx , like Plato, looked forward to a future in which the state, law, coercion, and competition for power had vanished and politics been replaced by rational organization.

The Marxist's has always treated justice with some disdain.

Plato does not so much purify politics as purify it to death.

Plato shows that it is, on average, better to be just. The unjust man must always fear that others will discover his injustices and defend themselves against him, and is exposed to anxieties the just man escapes.