Looking for help identifying a theory about good and evil

This is socratic thought, here are some resources:

https://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Socrates/socrates03.html

http://www.socraticmethod.net/socratic_essay_nature_of_human_evil.htm

I'd post quotes from it but one of them prevented me from copy/pasting directly and rather than fiddle in the source, I figured you could check it out.

People act, in the moment, in a way that they perceive to be good, for something. Good for themselves or good for the cause that they're acting for. Doesn't matter if it's viewed as bad to other or even many other people.

I agree with a-telescreen's comment that it's Socratic in flavor. I had initially thought to say it's Platonic and Neoplatonic (see Augustine), but both of course are rooted in Socrates. Lewis, as a Christian, was likely influenced by Augustine, hence Plato, hence Socrates (hence esoterically: Pythagoras and Buddha), although the quote touches a conundrum (and critique) that runs up to and through Rousseau and Kant; and in Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx (in the idea of alienation as the socio-proximate cause of epistemic-ethical confusion). :-)

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