GOVT-105 FA2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Thrasymachus, Polemarchus, Glaucon
29 Jan 2017
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Govt-105 - textbook notes - the republic, book i 336b-348c. After socrates refutes polemarchus" definition of justice, thrasymachus interrupts and demands that socrates provides his own definition. Socrates assures him that he takes the search for the nature of justice very seriously and that perhaps he and polemarchus are not competent. Thrasymachus accuses him of being ironic and avoiding the question. Socrates does not give a definition and thrasymachus gives his. Thrasymachus says that the just is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger . Every city, whether democratically, tyrannically, or aristocratically ruled, has a ruling group that sets down laws to their own advantage. These laws are declared to be just for the ruled and everyone must follow them. Therefore justice everywhere is to the advantage of the stronger. Socrates asks if rulers are infallible or if they make mistakes. Thrasymachus says that rulers can make mistakes.
