Thrasymachus Definition Of Justice Essay

Justice, he said, is nothing more than the advantage of the strong. Although Thrasymachus claims that this is a definition, it is not really intended as a definition of justice as much as it is the delegitimization of justice. He said that it does not pay to be just. behavior only works for the benefit of others, not to those who behave fairly. Thrasymachus assuming here that justice is not a reasonable restraint on our natural desire to have more. Justice is a convention imposed on us, and it does not benefit us to adhere to it. Rational thing to do is ignore the full justice.
Socrates has three arguments to employ against Thrasymachus claims'. First, he makes Thrasymachus admits that the views he advanced promotes injustice as a virtue. In this view, life is seen as competition constantly to get more (more money, more power, etc.), and anyone who is most successful in the competition have the greatest virtue. Socrates then launched into a long and complex chain of reasoning that leads him to conclude that injustice can not be a virtue because it is contrary to wisdom, which is a virtue. Injustice contrary to public policy because of the wise, the person skilled in the art, never attempt to defeat those who have the same art. mathematics, for example, is not in competition with other mathematicians. Socrates then moved to a new argument.
Some scholars go so far as to say that the book is mainly about something other than justice. Critic Allan Bloom, for example, read the book first and foremost as a defense of philosophy-as both Socrates "sorry." Socrates was executed by the city of Athens to practice philosophy. The leaders of Athens has decided that philosophy is dangerous and tried to expel them from the city. Socrates has called the old gods and the old law is questionable. He challenged, and ask others to challenge basic beliefs upon which the rest of their