ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who said this-Justice is the same thing everywhere, the advantage of the stronger
A
Thrasymachus
B
Polemarchus
C
Glaucon
D
Socrates
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Thrasymachus makes three statements regarding justice: 1) justice is “nothing other than the advantage of the stronger” (338c); 2) justice is obeying the laws of the ruler(s) (339b); 3) justice is “really someone else’s good, the advantage of the man who is stronger and rules” (343c).

Detailed explanation-2: -Thrasymachus eventually proposes a resounding slogan: “Justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger” (338c2–3). He explains that each kind of regime makes laws in the interest of the ruling party: the mass of poor people in a democracy, the rich in an oligarchy, the tyrant in a tyranny.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thus, Socrates, injustice on a sufficiently large scale is a stronger, freer, and a more masterful thing than justice, and, as I said in the beginning, it is the advantage of the stronger that is the just, while the unjust is what profits man’s self and is for his advantage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Socrates says that Thrasymachus is wrong on three counts: that the unjust man is more knowledgeable than the just, that injustice is a source of strength; and that injustice brings happiness.

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