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Socrates contends that such art which makes a person escape or evade
punishment is bad not only for the society but for the person himself as this would only
give the person temporary pleasure but of not being able to fix his soul. He illustrates
through an analogy of the use of medicine at the olden times that for a person to be
healed he has to endure the bitterness of such medicine. The punishment imposed for
the wrong doing of a person is the same as to the bitter medicine to fix his soul.
For order in the society to be achieved, Socrates maintains that it is not for the
people to impose what is just or unjust nor what is good or what is evil. To satisfy the
pleasure of the people is not good but on the contrary is evil. The pleasure of the people,
ones satisfied, will no longer bring happiness. Such policies are not for a matter of what
is good or evil but a matter of what is evil and what is lesser evil.
The subject of Constitutional Law Two tackles about the Bill of Rights or the
individual rights of every citizen of the nation. Basically speaking this rights limit our
natural rights to harmonize every individual person’s rights. Intrusion to such
individual rights is where the law intervenes and imposes punishment.
The main goal of the law is for the equal happiness of every individual. If such
law is created only because of the moment’s situation or only for a certain individual
then such is not good for the person or the individual or the society as a whole. Such
temporary relief of the situation is vulnerable to abuse and such would result to chaos.
Student #: 1551-17
Section: Plato
Student #: 1551-17
Section: Plato