Thrasymachus (/ θ r æ ˈ s ɪ m ə k ə s /; [1] Greek: Θρασύμαχος Thrasýmachos; c. 459 – c. 400 BC) was a sophist of ancient Greece best known as a character in Plato's Republic. Life, date, and career

Thrasymachus (fl. 427 B.C.E.) Thrasymachus of Chalcedon is one of several “older sophists” (including Antiphon, Critias, Hippias, Gorgias, and Protagoras) who became famous in Athens during the fifth century B.C.E. We know that Thrasymachus was born in Chalcedon, a colony of Megara in Bithynia, and that he had distinguished himself as a ...

2004年8月11日 · Callicles and Thrasymachus are the two great exemplars in philosophy of contemptuous challenge to conventional morality. Both are characters in Platonic dialogues, in the Gorgias and Book I of the Republic respectively; both denounce the virtue of justice, dikaiosunê , as an artificial brake on self-interest, a fraud to be seen through by ...

2021年12月5日 · Designed to give students a working knowledge of the Greek languages in order to examine the ancient texts with confidence and enjoyment, the text includes some of the more familiar of the myths, some of the exciting parts of the Odyssey, and a number of extracts from other Greek authors from the earliest down to the New Testament.

One of the later Sophists, Thrasymachus of Chalcedon (flourished 5th century bce), was bold enough to declare openly that “right is what is beneficial for the stronger or better one”—that is, for the one able to win the power to bend others to his will.

2023年12月8日 · In Plato 's Republic, Thrasymachus provides a definition of justice that Socrates rejects, for it does not get to the heart of justice but is actually more about power. Let's look at...

2023年4月10日 · Thrasymachus was a Sophist philosopher who lived in ancient Greece during the 5th century BCE. He is known for his appearance in Plato’s Republic, where he engages in a dialogue with Socrates on the nature of justice.

A new period begins with Thrasymachus of Chalcedon, who adopted Athens as his home. He is placed by Aristotle between Tisias, one of the founders of rhetoric, and Theodorus of Byzantium ( Soph. Elench., 183 b. 32), who was a contemporary of Lysias.

2021年7月6日 · A recording-in-progress of the ancient Greek dialogues of C.W.E. Peckett and Anthony Munday's Thrasymachus.

2017年9月9日 · In the first part, Thrasymachus lashes out at Socrates claiming that justice is the advantage of the stronger, and also that injustice is more profitable than justice. In the second part, after Socrates has successfully tamed the tyrant, Thrasymachus placates Socrates with a “banquet” of words…