Talk:Suum cuique
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"justice is when everyone minds his own business, and refrains from meddling in others' affairs"
[edit]I'm doubtful that justice is when everyone minds his own business, and refrains from meddling in others' affairs is correct. If I lookup "meddling" in a typical translation I find:
- Seeing then, I said, that there are three distinct classes, any meddling of one with another, or the change of one into another, is the greatest harm to the State, and may be most justly termed evil-doing? Precisely. And the greatest degree of evil-doing to one’s own city would be termed by you injustice? Certainly. This then is injustice; and on the other hand when the trader, the auxiliary, and the guardian each do their own business, that is justice, and will make the city just.
Plato is not suggesting that "everyone minds his own business". Rather, he wants he three classes (proles, fighters and philosophers) not to mingle William M. Connolley (talk) 20:54, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
motto at the gate of Buchenwald
[edit]I don't get it why my addition regarding this motto in Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald is being deleted/reverted. SoilnRock (talk) 19:50, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
- Because you have provided no evidence for this claim (and the B page doesn't mention it either). cn = [citation needed] = "citation needed" William M. Connolley (talk) 20:44, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
- Excuse me? "On the main gate, the motto Jedem das Seine (English: "To each his own"), was inscribed." SoilnRock (talk) 18:02, 8 February 2021 (UTC)