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What is Lady Philosophy’s argument that demonstrates that the good (virtuous) person is necessarily strong and the wicked is necessarily weak?

 

edwina s #182471
Apr 29, 2011 9:28 PM

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What is Lady Philosophy’s argument that demonstrates that the good (virtuous) person is necessarily strong and the wicked is necessarily weak?

i don't understand at all over my head at the moment?

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Roskolnikov
Jan 10, 2012 12:09 PM

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Lady Philosophy essentially argues that wickedness is fleeting and even non-existent in the strictest sense. Because goodness and wickedness are constituting elements of human beings, it is true then that wickedness becomes a "substance-less substance." This sort of constitution is necessarily weak for seemingly obvious reasons.
 

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