Thursday, January 15, 2009

"Gorgias" and "Crime and Punishment"

SOCRATES: On the other hand, Polus, my opinion is that the wicked man and the doer of wicked acts is miserable in any case, but more miserable if he does not pay the penalty and suffer punishment for his crimes, and less miserable if he does pay the penalty and suffer punishment in this world and the next. (Plato, Gorgias 472; trans. Walter Hamilton)


How did Plato know the premise to Dostoesvky's Crime and Punishment?

1 comment:

Angie Van De Merwe said...

Perhaps, studying the 'classics"?