Thrasymachus, Cephalus, Polymarchus and Socrates. The Republic is a

dialogue between Socrates and each of these five men, the topic is

justice, what it means to be just, who is just and why they choose to

be just. Each man holds his own opinion and tries to convince

Socrates that theirs is the correct answer. For the use of this

paper I will be discussing in depth the characters of Thrasymachus

and Glaucon. These two characters have very different insights as to

the question of justice, they are in effect opposites.

The first of these two men that Socrates speaks with is

Thrasymachus. When Socrates has a dialogue with someone he uses a

system called refutation. Refutation is best described as a

four-fold process. First Socrates will get his opponent to elicit an

opinion, then he will ask for clarification of the opinion given, he

will then point out some obvious flaws in the argument of his

opponent and then he will give this other person a way out, before he

tears their argument to pieces. The first mistake that one can make

when talking to Socrates is to give a strong opinion right off the

the horse there is a corpse. Upon the corpse a ring is found that

the strong, or might makes right. To Thrasymachus justice is only

Socrates, never able to back down from a good discussion, admits that

possible know every angle of something and therefor begins to cut

that he kind of understands Socrates way of questioning. Instead of

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