[339e]
“Then you will have to
think,”1 I said, “that to do what is
disadvantageous to the rulers and the stronger has been admitted by you to
be just in the case when the rulers unwittingly enjoin what is bad for
themselves, while you affirm that it is just for the others to do what they
enjoined. In that way does not this conclusion inevitably follow, my most
sapient2 Thrasymachus, that it is just to do the very opposite3 of what you say? For it is in
that case surely the disadvantage of the stronger or superior that the
inferior
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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