GOVT-105 FA2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Thrasymachus, Glaucon, Bad Life
2 Feb 2017
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Govt-105 - textbook note - the republic, book i 351b- book ii 377a. Thrasymachus asserts that perfect injustice is more profitable than perfect justice. Socrates asks which is virtue and which is vice between justice and injustice. Thrasymachus says that justice is high-minded innocence and injustice is good counsel ; injustice is virtue. Those who can do injustice perfectly and subjugate cities are good. Socrates says that by claiming that injustice is both virtuous and mighty, thrasymachus must count everything commonly attributed to the just as belonging to the unjust. Socrates asks if the just man would be willing to take advantage of the just man. Thrasymachus says no and agrees that the just man would not take advantage of the just action either. A just man would claim to deserve to get the better of the unjust man. The unjust man would take advantage of both just and unjust men and actions.
