Explain the socratic proportion by analyzing the argument

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Explain the Socratic Proportion by analyzing the argument below. Do you find the argument convincing? Why or why not? Keep in mind MLK's "Letter from the Birmingham City Jail.

1. Every kind of thing has a work that it alone can do or that it does better than anything else can.

2. The excellence or virtue of a thing of any kind is that which makes it perform its work well.

3. The work of the soul is living.

4. Conclusion from (2) and (3): the virtue of the soul makes it live well

5. Justice is the virtue of the human soul.

6. Conclusion from (4) and (5). the just live well.

7. Conclusion from all the above. the just are happy ~or "only the just" can hope to be happy.

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