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Plato And Voltaire On Vaccination
Submitted by Serenity on Mon, 2015-02-16 02:00
In Plato’s Laches, the question arises as to the relationship of courage (and by extension, virtue generally) to risk. On the one hand, the courageous person is supposed to be admirable, and so would not take foolish risks; thus being guided by wisdom seems built into the notion of courage.
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