Thrasymachus and Socrates
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The challenge Thrasymachus presents to Socrates in Book 1 of the Republic is that might makes right in any state at all. Nobody can figure out right and wrong, for the government of a state is alone powerful enough to decide what is right and just (237). Thus the interest of the stronger is to be identified with justice. It is for the people only to obey.Socrates' questions force Thrasymachus to admit that from time to time, those who rule in a state make mistaken judgments and mistaken laws, even against their own best interests. Thus Thrasymachus falls into a contradiction. For if the government is mistaken even though strong, it is logically impossible for it to be right, however strong. Furthermore, if it is still just for the ruled to obey their rulers' laws, then justice is a sham, for obeying a mistaken judgment or law cannot be just for either subjects or
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