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Thrasymachus Vs Socrates Justice

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To summarize the contexts, Plato steps fourth to answer two questions. What is justice? And, Why should we be just? Socrates argues that there are confusions in conventional morality, while Thrasymachus rejects this belief and refutes that human behavior is and should be guided by self-interest. The dialogue begins hastily with an unsympathetic Thrasymachus offensive and in poor treatment of Socrates. After a brief argument with Socrates Thrasymachus starts by saying that Right is the ‘Interest of the stronger’ and that just behavior works to the advantage of other people, not to the person who behaves justly. After Thrasymachus’ beginning proposal he steps into explaining why interest of the stronger party is right by conveying that each

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