And Plato might also have found that the intuition of evil may be consistent with the abhorrence of it.

There is a directness of aim in virtue which gives an insight into vice.

And the knowledge of character is in some degree a natural sense independent of any special experience of good or evil.
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One of the most remarkable conceptions of Plato, because un-Greek and also very different from anything which existed at all in his age of the world, is the transposition of ranks.

In the Spartan state there had been enfranchisement of Helots and degradation of citizens under special circumstances.