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Doing Justice to Thrasymachus

Polis 22 (1):24-44 (2005)

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  1. Thrasymachus on the Relativity of Justice.David Novitsky - 2009 - Polis 26 (1):11-30.
    Thrasymachus’ position on justice, as articulated in Book I of Plato’s Republic, has emerged in the literature as a frustratingly intractable problem because it seems to be made up of contradictory accounts. This paper accomplishes three objectives in relation to this problem. First, it offers an original solution, ‘the relativity view’, which reads Thrasymachus’ two speeches as a temporal narrative, thereby explaining away the notorious contradiction. Second, it highlights the little-noted and underappreciated relativistic and perspectival understandings of justice in Thrasymachus’ (...)
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