Thrasymachus vs. Glaucon

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Philosophy

 

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Dustin A

 

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January 21, 2017

 

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Thrasymachus ends his participation in the conversation by meanly congratulating Socrates on his "victory," and telling Socrates to "feast on his triumph" as if the argument on defining justice is some type of contest. His argument, the question of following the stronger, and the question of what justice is, might finally make sense, if we allow him to wrongfully mix two concepts of right and might...
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This is to say that Thrasymachus believes the mightier one gets the righter they are and the more just it is to follow them. In the course of arguing to his conclusion that, "injustice when it comes into being on a sufficient scale, is mightier, freer, and more masterful than justice" (Republic, 344 c) he made three fundamental assumptions...
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