What is Justice?

Many of us have a basic background in philosophy or some manner of a moral or faith system. Western political philosophy is formed by two texts in degree; The Bible and Plato's Republic. Here we can can see the question raised What is Justice in the Individual and What is Justice in the State? Thrasymachus is a paid sophist. We can extend with accuracy the current philosophy of humanrights abuse from his answers. 

 David Nollmeyer 

 Plato's The Republic 

Thrasymachus says, "I declare justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger" Republic 338c [W.H.D. Rouse translation, Great Dialogues of Plato, Mentor Books, 1956, p.137. The following two citations are Rouse's translation also]. Robbery and violence are normally called "injustice," but when they are practiced wholesale by rulers, they are justice, i.e. the interest of the stronger, the rulers. Thus, when we consider ordinary citizens, "the just man comes off worse than an unjust man everywhere" (343d). Since the rulers do not obey the principles they impose on the citizens, they are in those terms "unjust." So Thrasymachus says, "You will understand it most easily, if you come to the most perfect injustice, which makes the unjust man most happy, and makes those who are wronged and will not be unjust most miserable" (344a). 

 ... Tyranny is not a matter of minor theft and violence, but of wholesale plunder, sacred and profane, private or public. If you are caught committing such crimes in detail you are punished and disgraced; sacrilege, kidnapping, burglary, fraud, theft are the names we give to such petty forms of wrongdoing. But when a man succeeds in robbing the whole body of citizens and reducing them to slavery, they forget these ugly names and call him happy and fortunate, as do all others who hear of his unmitigated wrongdoing.

[Republic 344a-c, H.D.P. Lee translation, Penguin Books, 1955, p.73.]

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