Mccarthy: The Antithesis Of Socratic Justice

The antithesis of Socratic justice is that The road agents possess no understanding of what constitutes good and have “made of the world a lie every word” (McCarthy 75). This lie is one they tell themselves to justify their actions and cloud their morality. When, for example, one of them attempted to lure the Man and the Boy back to his truck, he told them that he would feed them and that no harm would come of them (McCarthy 64). His real motivation, however, was to kill them and eat them. The road agent was attempting to fulfil his own desires for survival at the cost of the Man and the Boy’s life. Then, after the Man killed him, the other members of his party ate him with impunity. There was no happiness in this creature -neither during his