... the world, life, and how to live. Socrates was a sort of bridge to Plato and Aristotle. In fact, in a way, Socrates and Plato were the same person, a sort of "Plocrates." The Republic, which Plato wrote, is predominantly about the ideas put forth by Socrates. Socrates was infamous for his ... itself. He disproves Polemarchus" statement that justice is treating friends well and enemies badly by determining that harming someone would make them live more unjustly. Therefore, harming someone, even your enemy, would be unjust because it creates more injustice. He also disagree with Thrasymach...

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Book One of Plato's Republic begins with a scene that depicts two men, Socrates and Glaucon, walking on their way out of town to pray to the goddess Bendis and observe the festival dedicated to ... that Thrasymachus said that injustice is more powerful and mightier than justice. At the same time he is able to get Thrasymachus to agree that a group of unjust men acting unjustly upon one another have no power, and that a just man is friends of the gods and an unjust man an enemy. Socrates states, "Since the wholly bad and perfectly unjust ... ...

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