Concept
Thrasymachus
Overview
Thrasymachus (; Ancient Greek: Θρασύμαχος Thrasýmachos; c. 459 – c. 400 BC) was a sophist of ancient Greece best known as a character in Plato's Republic.
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You are a philosopher, Thrasymachus, I replied, and well know that if you ask a person what numbers make up twelve, taking care to prohibit him whom you ask from answering twice six, or three times four, or six times two, or four times three, ‘for this sort of nonsense will not do for me,’—then obviously, if that is your way of putting the question, no one can answer you. But suppose that he were to retort…
Plato, The Republic
Names Thrasymachus several times; the author is tied to Thrasymachus in the knowledge graph.
You speak excellently well, said he:—and now, as to what I said I would first speak about, listen, both what justice is and whence it springs. ----- Footnote 55: Thrasymachus is here, on account of his passionate violence and uncouth manners, aptly compared to a snake, which, as the ancients believed, could be softened and subdued by music:—and we note particularly the elegant use of the verb κηλεῖν, which primarily…
Plato, The works of Plato
States what Thrasymachus is; the author is tied to Thrasymachus in the knowledge graph.
They say that Thrasymachus of Chalcedon, and Gorgias of Leontini, were the first men who taught this science; after him Theodorus of Byzantium, and many others whom Socrates in the Phaedrus calls [Greek: logodaidaloi]; who have said many things very tolerably clever, but which seem as if they had arisen at the moment, trifling, and like animals which change their colour, and too minutely painted. And this is what…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
Opens on Thrasymachus; names Thrasymachus.
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- Megarian school
- Republic (Plato)
- Isocrates
- Sophistical Refutations
- Politics (Aristotle)
- Rhetoric (Aristotle)
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Leo Strauss
- Plato
- Socrates
- Aristotle
- Straw man
- Sophist
- Alcibiades
- Ancient Greece
- Clement of Alexandria
- Suda
- Phaedrus (dialogue)
- Euripides
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Place in the tradition
Part of Ancient Greek philosophy.