Observations on Plato’s Thrasymachus: The Case for Pleonexia

Algra, Keimpe

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“…44 E.g. White 1979, 7-8;Kahn 1993;Algra 1996. Lycos 1987 aim to offer correctives to these readings.…”

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Thrasymachus’ Unerring Skill and the Arguments of Republic 1

Nawar

2018

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In defending the view that justice is the advantage of the stronger, Thrasymachus puzzlingly claims that rulers never err and that any practitioner of a skill or expertise (τέχνη) is infallible. In what follows, Socrates offers a number of arguments directed against Thrasymachus’ views concerning the nature of skill, ruling, and justice. However, both Thrasymachus’ views and Socrates’ arguments against Thrasymachus’ views have frequently been misunderstood. In this paper, I clarify Thrasymachus’ views concerning the nature of skill and ability, reconstruct Socrates’ arguments against Thrasymachus’ views concerning skill and justice, and argue that Socrates’ arguments are better than often supposed.

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“…44 E.g. White 1979, 7-8;Kahn 1993;Algra 1996. Lycos 1987 aim to offer correctives to these readings.…”

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Thrasymachus’ Unerring Skill and the Arguments of Republic 1

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“…to A.D. 220 (London,rev. ed -, ( 1997) 'From backward configuration to configurational analysis', in Otte and Panza (1997) Elenchos 7,repr. in Studies in the Historiography of Greek Philosophy (Assen/ Maastricht 1990) 343-428 128cn 192 --, ( 1992) Michaux (1947), Tihon (1976, Oikonomides (1977), Sambursky (1985), Masullo ( Fecht (1927) Theon of Alexandria see Grynaeus and Camerarius (1538), Rome ( 1936), Toomer (1976b, Rome (1953), Tihon (1978, Mogenet and Tihon (1985), Tihon (1991) Theon of Smyrna see Hiller ( 1878) Thesleff, H .. , ed., (1965) Algra & al. (1996) In Rempublicam (Kroll) p. 1.1.5-7 56 p. 1.…”

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