Friday, September 5, 2014
Justice as the advantage of the stronger
This view by Thrasymachus that, "Justice is the advantage of the stronger." To my understanding merely states that justice can only be accomplished by those who benefit from it. And I use that understanding very lightly based that Thrasymachus was a Sophist and they don't believe in what's actually right or wrong. However they do believe that the advantage or disadvantage of the person performing them is the source of justice. Thrasymachus philosophical understanding of just and unjust is the Sophistics moral notion. But Thrasymachus also believed that those rules were set by "the stronger" and that being said it undoubtably goes in their favor. My clear understanding of Thrasymachus approach is what we consider justice is the tools/options that the stronger left for decision to be made. Unfornunately it's tools for the "oppressors" to continue to "oppress" the "oppressed!"
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I completely agree with your claims on, Thrasymachus, which proves justice can't be justice for all! According to the excerpt from, Plato's Republic, justice can't truly be justice without having a group of individuals feeling unjust. Allow me to recapitulate, the excerpt always demonstrate justice with having a particular price or sense that it's something we cannot truly obtain unless it's in an ideal world. And I quote, ''The best to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge.'' Based on this quote, I can agree that justice inevitably serve the strongest because the justice for the strongest is the injustice for the unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteI agree in the respect that justice is to the advantage of the stronger. As i pointed out in my post, the dictionary does not use the word "right" to define justice even one time in seven different definitions. This is because some things that are just in society are not necessarily "right". Think of the 1930s to '60s in the US where it was "illegal" or "unjust" for people of color to sit in the front of public buses. This law was not "right" but it was considered "just" because it worked to the advantage of the stronger party in society.
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