Socrates - Cleitophon - Polemarchus - Thrasymachus
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Socrates - Cleitophon - Polemarchus - Thrasymachus
Yes, said Cleitophon, interposing, if you are allowed to be his witness.
But there is no need of any witness, said Polemarchus, for Thrasymachus himself acknowledges that rulers may sometimes command what is not for their own interest, and that for subjects to obey them is justice.
Yes, Polemarchus,--Thrasymachus said that for subjects to do what was commanded by their rulers is just.
Yes, Cleitophon, but he also said that justice is the interest of the stronger, and, while admitting both these propositions, he further acknowledged that the stronger may command the weaker who are his subjects to do what is not for his own interest; whence follows that justice is the injury quite as much as the interest of the stronger.
But, said Cleitophon, he meant by the interest of the stronger what the stronger thought to be his interest,--this was what the weaker had to do; and this was affirmed by him to be justice.
Those were not his words, rejoined Polemarchus.
About Plato
Text
Summary
The Introduction
Argument
Characters
Book I
Socrates - Glaucon
Socrates - Polemarchus - Glaucon - Adeimantus
Glaucon - Cephalus - Socrates
Cephalus - Socrates - Polemarchus
Socrates - Polemarchus
Socrates - Polemarchus - Thrasymachus
Socrates - Thrasymachus - Glaucon
Socrates - Cleitophon - Polemarchus - Thrasymachus
Socrates - Thrasymachus
Socrates - Glaucon
Socrates - Glaucon - Thrasymachus
Book II
Socrates - Glaucon
Glaucon
Socrates - Glaucon
Adeimantus -Socrates
Adeimantus
Socrates - Adeimantus
Socrates - Glaucon
Socrates - Adeimantus
Book III
Socrates - Adeimantus
Socrates - Glaucon
Book IV
Adeimantus - Socrates
Socrates - Glaucon
Book V
Socrates - Glaucon - Adeimantus
Socrates - Adeimantus - Glaucon - Thrasymachus
Book VI
Socrates - Glaucon
Socrates - Adeimantus
Glaucon - Socrates
Book VII
Socrates - Glaucon
Book VIII
Socrates - Glaucon
Socrates - Adeimantus
Book IX
Socrates - Adeimantus
Socrates - Glaucon
Book X
Socrates - Glaucon
Socrates
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