Socrates takes examples of these predicates applied...

Socrates takes examples of these predicates applied elsewhere (note that once again there is a translation difficulty; καλός means both “beautiful” and “honorable,” αἰσχρός both “ugly” and “disgraceful”)-namely, to sounds and colors, to ways of life, and to sciences. From these examples he draws the conclusion that we are entitled to call something καλός if it is useful or pleasant, or both, in the eyes of a disinterested spectator.

Thus if Polus agrees that to suffer injury undeservedly is more honorable, it must be because it is pleasanter and more beneficial. But for Polus these define the content of “what a man wants,” so he can no longer consistently dissent from Socrates’ view. A further very…