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A 5 page paper which considers whose idea of justice and explanation of how it functions in society is more compelling and why. Bibliography lists 3 sources
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using this paper properly! Throughout the history of philosophy, there is, perhaps, no argument that has been more heated or produced more discord than the concept of justice.
The early Greek philosophers devoted much of their study to determining what constitutes justice, and yet there was very little consensus. Perhaps the most famous dialogue on justice is
featured in Platos political treatise, The Republic, in which his revered teacher and mentor, Socrates, is discussing the concept with a group of his students. His students already know
that know that, Justice is not a technique aimed at the advantage of the strong, but they still do not know what it is" (Smith 166). Book I begins
with Thrasymachus proclaiming, "Justice is simply the interest of the stronger" (338c). He is concluding that justice is the determination of the most powerful members of a state or
society. He attempts to further justify his claim by explaining, "He who behaves justly does not benefit himself. It follows that a just subject properly serves the interests
of the ruler but does so to his own injury. The dynamics of justice, then, consistently operate to advantage the ruler but never the subjects. The result is
that injustice lords it over those who are truly simple and truly just. Because the unjust ruler is stronger, his subjects serve his interests and his happiness at the
expense of their own" (343c-d). Thrasymachus further explains to Socrates that justice never has a chance when pitted against injustice. According to Thrasymachus, "The just man is always a
loser, my na?ve Socrates. He always loses out to the unjust. Consider private business. If a just man takes an unjust man for a partner and the
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