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Jessica Cullimore Trinity Term 2005, Week 1 A Discussion of the Thrasymachus Episode in Book I of Plato's 'Republic' This essay sets out to examine the suggestions that Thrasymachus makes in Book I of the Republic, concerning what justice is, after suggesting that Polemarchus was not at all talking sensibly. I intend to discuss the two definitions which he offers to Socrates, and their validity; I wish to also examine to what extent Socrates' refutations can be considered as good arguments against Thrasymachus' theories about the nature of justice. Thrasymachus first argues that justice is the advantage of the stronger1; Socrates rather mocks this suggestion, first taking Thrasymachus completely literally, asking him whether a boxer, because he is stronger, is a just person. Thrasymachus obviously does not mean this quite as logically as Socrates interprets it, and he then goes on to suggest that, by extension of this thought, justice is the advantage...

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