Dialogue

 1  Gorg|             miserable if he suffers punishment; but Socrates thinks him
 2  Gorg|           he who has been healed by punishment. And therefore the criminal
 3  Gorg|             escape the necessity of punishment, but if he have done wrong
 4  Gorg|           done wrong he must endure punishment. In this way states and
 5  Gorg|        classes of souls who undergo punishment—the curable and the incurable.
 6  Gorg|          who are benefited by their punishment; the incurable are such
 7  Gorg|           be undergoing everlasting punishment. Not that there is anything
 8  Gorg| consequences.~(3) Plato’s theory of punishment is partly vindictive, partly
 9  Gorg|            not incurable, and their punishment is intended for their improvement.
10  Gorg|           of ethics a conception of punishment which is really derived
11  Gorg|           He does not see that such punishment is only negative, and supplies
12  Gorg|        explained how or in what way punishment is to contribute to the
13  Gorg|         which makes the everlasting punishment of human beings depend on
14  Gorg|             punished.~SOCRATES: And punishment is an evil?~POLUS: Certainly.~
15  Gorg|          meets with retribution and punishment he will still be happy?~
16  Gorg|             guilty man is to suffer punishment, as you supposed, or whether
17  Gorg|      supposed, or whether to escape punishment is not a greater evil, as
18  Gorg|            would say that to suffer punishment is another name for being
19  Gorg|       healed.~SOCRATES: And was not punishment said by us to be a deliverance
20  Gorg|           admonition and rebuke and punishment?~POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then
21  Gorg|             rebuke or correction or punishment; and this, as you say, has
22  Gorg|          all that they can to avoid punishment and to avoid being released
23  Gorg|             further, that to suffer punishment is the way to be released
24  Gorg|        sufferer; and he who escapes punishment, more miserable than he
25  Gorg|       should escape, and not suffer punishment: if he has stolen a sum
26  Gorg|             injustice and to escape punishment is not the worst of all
27  Gorg|          his life so as not to need punishment; but if either he or any
28  Gorg|             or city, are in need of punishment, then justice must be done
29  Gorg|             done and he must suffer punishment, if he would be happy. This
30  Gorg|          the house of vengeance and punishment, which is called Tartarus.
31  Gorg|          and there he undergoes the punishment which he deserves.~Now the
32  Gorg|            Now the proper office of punishment is twofold: he who is rightly
33  Gorg|            as suffering everlasting punishment in the world below: such
34  Gorg|            as suffering everlasting punishment, or as incurable. For to