How did Thrasymachus arrive at his account of what justice is? At first he simply announces it, but soon enough Plato tells us that it is the conclusion of an argument:“if one reasons rightly, it works out that the just is the same thing everywhere, the advantage of the stronger”(339a; Shorey trans., modified). Not as explicitly but clearly enough, we can see that Glaucon works up his contractarian account of justice by looking at the origin of justice (358c–e). Earlier, Polemarchus fetches the idea of ... [Book Review]

In Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic. Blackwell. pp. 125 (2006)
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