Stanley Fish mentions in his article that plagiarism seems to be less of an issue of philosophical matters. He describes plagiarizing as a sin, like it would be equal with sinning. Sinning is also described as being a learned thing that we develop as we grow and plagiarism seems to be just that. With this idea in mind, the only thing at stake when plagiarism is actually being done seems to be just simply stealing from the previous person who used the material. However, that same person may have been guilty of the same thing and stole those ideas from someone else. The act of actual stealing looks like more of the problem in this case. If we start to bring in the idea of using philosophical ideas and turning this into the "uniqueness" of someone's own philosophical ideas, then it becomes a different story. Plagiarism looks to be more of the stealing of someone's recreation of original ideas than the stealing of original ideas.
With all this in mind, what really seems to be at stake due to plagiarism is the recreated "unique" ideas that branched off of another's remake or original of some kind. Original work doesn't seem to be what is in danger any longer.
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