According to Thrasymachus, “justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger” (Republic I). What are his arguments for this position, and how does Socrates refute them? What do you think?

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Socrates – POLEMARCHUS – THRASYMACHUS

He roared out to the whole company: What folly. Socrates, has taken possession of you all? And why, sillybillies, do you knock under to one another? I say that if you want really to know what justice is, you should not only ask but answer, and you should not seek honour to yourself from the refutation of an opponent, but have your own answer; for there is many a one who can ask and cannot answer.

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