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Plato's Refutation Of Thrasymachus: The Craft Argument, Edward Warren
Plato's Refutation Of Thrasymachus: The Craft Argument, Edward Warren
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
I argue that in Plato's view the nature and existence of knowledge refutes Thrasymachus and that in employing the craft argument to this end Plato presupposes that 1) knowledge is always of Form, 2) knowledge, being, and power are united, and 3) the Good confers value upon being.
Plato's Theory Of Social Justice In Republic Ii-Iv, Edward Nichols Lee
Plato's Theory Of Social Justice In Republic Ii-Iv, Edward Nichols Lee
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Plato presents the enigmatic and ambiguous formula, "each one doing his own" as his definition of social justice. I will search for the sense that he establishes for that definition: to show how he thinks he has established that that unlikely formula is in fact a reasonable definition of social justice, and to analyze what it means. Plato's theory of justice has its primary sources in sophistic thinking, in particular to the contractarian approach to political philosophy.
Socrates And Thrasymachus, Francis Sparshott
Socrates And Thrasymachus, Francis Sparshott
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
What is striking in the Republic is less the doctrines that Plato propounds than the relationship that he develops between ideas. We show that a surprising number of these relationships are already set forth, or alluded to, in the encounter between Socrates and Thrasymachus.