For Thrasymachus, the stronger group makes rules advantageous to themselves as he says that democracy makes democratic laws, tyranny makes tyrannical laws, and so on with others (Plato 338e). However, Hobbes thinks that justice or injustice can be inherited. For example, democracy is a form of just government, and tyranny must be unjust (LV Chapter 19.2). There might be some response against my point that both of their views are not really different. However, this argument fails because Hobbes makes a clear point that some types of governments can be unjust while Thrasymachus would say that all forms of government are just. Thus, by definition all kinds of government are just in Thrasymachus’s view but not for
For Thrasymachus, the stronger group makes rules advantageous to themselves as he says that democracy makes democratic laws, tyranny makes tyrannical laws, and so on with others (Plato 338e). However, Hobbes thinks that justice or injustice can be inherited. For example, democracy is a form of just government, and tyranny must be unjust (LV Chapter 19.2). There might be some response against my point that both of their views are not really different. However, this argument fails because Hobbes makes a clear point that some types of governments can be unjust while Thrasymachus would say that all forms of government are just. Thus, by definition all kinds of government are just in Thrasymachus’s view but not for