Thrasymachus

Thrasymachus appears in the first book of Plato’s _Republic_, in which the speakers discuss the nature of Justice. Several tentative definitions of Justice are given, which Socr...

The statement of general principles in the preceding chapter was not undertaken solely for the pleasure of political and ethical speculation. My concern is a more practical one....

Important forces are, however, at work in the contrary direction. If the growing prevalence of herd morality will tend to place a new emphasis on the importance of uniformity, u...

Before I endeavour to answer the question with which I concluded the last chapter, there are one or two additional considerations to which it is necessary to refer, since they m...