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Quotation from Protagoras by Plato
“Then, I said, no man voluntarily pursues evil, or that which he thinks to be evil. To prefer evil to good is not in human nature”
Protagoras, Stephanus 358c-d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The conclusion of the hedonist argument, to which Hippias and Prodicus assent; it prepares the redefinition of courage as knowledge.
Citation: "Then, I said, no man voluntarily pursues evil, or that which he thinks to be evil. To prefer evil to good is not in human nature" — Plato, Protagoras, Stephanus 358c-d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-protagoras-q7)
