QUESTION 1 The general view of justice during Plato\'s time that he attacked: °J

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QUESTION 1 The general view of justice during Plato's time that he attacked: °Justice has to do with one's external behavior toward others. O Justice has to do with your intentions °Justice has to do with following laws. °Justice has to do with your soul. QUESTION 2 According to Plato, it is wrong to harm someone because when you harm someone, you: Violate a law. O None of these. Cause them (and possibly others) pain. O Make them less perfect in terms of their virtue or excellence. QUESTION 3 Why does the definition of justice" as telling the truth and repaying your debts fail? Because justice has to include protecting what's yours. Because justice has to do with obeying the law. Because you cannot make promises about the future Because there are examples where telling the truth and repaying your debts is the wrong thing to do. Click Save and Submit to save and submit. Click Save All Answers to save all answers

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1. Plato attacked the idea that justice has to do with following laws(option no. 3)

2. According to Plato, it is wrong to harm others because you can make them less perfect in terms of their virtue and excellence ( last option )

3. Defining justice as telling truth and repaying one’s debts fails because there are instances where telling the truth and repaying your debts is the wrong thing to do (last option ). For instance, Socrates gives the example of an enemy who may ask us to debt in term sof our own lives, but that does not justify his/her claims.

4. According to Plato, excellence consists in justice( second option).

5. According to Plato Doing good things makes someone just. The statement is true.

6. According to Plato, justice has to do with understanding the soul as what lives on beyond us.

7. According to Plato, the idea of doing good to those who are good and bad to those who are and, this statement is false.

8. According to Plato, if you harm someone then you re less likely to be moral in the future

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