An idea from The Trial and Death of Socrates

You use words like good and fair every day, and you probably think you know what they mean. Outside a court in Athens, a man was prosecuting his own father for letting a laborer die tied up in a ditch. He was sure he knew what holiness demanded.

From The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

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