Plato’s Republic – Justice, The Multitudinous Self, and The True World

There is an effectively infinite number of ways to act in any given circumstance, with all the ensuing consequences that emerge through a complex interplay between the nodes of a huge network of causalities and other actions by other agents. The most fundamental human need is to know what actions are more worthy of pursuit than others, or what one ought to do. So, what one ought to do? A consequentialist would say that one ought to do what has good consequences, and a utilitarianist would conti...

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