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Glaucon's Question reconsidered: A reply to Mr. Hugo Meynell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2024

William P. Frerking
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New Blackfriars , Volume 54 , Issue 640 , September 1973 , pp. 393 - 407
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Copyright © 1973 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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1 Possibly there is an allusion to the notion of the intrinsic goodness of justice in a sentence on p. 79: ‘I admit that there are persons in every society who have a passionate interest in justice, but are without hope for themselves in pursuing it.’ [i.e., are not pursuing it for the sake of any consequences.] But for all that is said here, this ‘passionate interest’ might be like a ‘passionate interest’ in butterflies, merely a personal taste or inclination, a quirk, not a love of what is, above all else, worthwhile in human life.

2 The Heythrop Journal (Oct. 1970), pp. 365‐387, esp. p. 367.

I am very much indebted to this and other papers by Dr. Finnis, as well as to private conversation, for much of the argument of this paper, especially in the following pages.

3 We are not speaking of divine beatitude here, nor of the possibility that any human happiness must be somewhat imperfect in this life.

3 Cf. Gauthier & Jotif, Commentary on N.E., at IV. 3.