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((what claim the author is making in this passage, what his grounds are
For that claim, and what is at stake in the passage—what are the implications, and why is it significant for the argument as a whole.))))
Socrates “I understand that the just come to light as wiser and better and more able to accomplish something, while the unjust
can’t accomplish anything with one another – for we don’t speak the complete truth about those men who say we vigorously
accomplished some common object with one another although they were unjust; they could never have restrained themselves
with one another if they were completely unjust, but it is plain that there was a certain justice in them which caused them at
least not to do injustice to one another at the same time that they were seeking to do it to others” (p. 31)\
THIS IS MY ESSAY, PLEASE HELP CORRECT IT
In this passage, the author is trying to say that there are still just people in the world. Just people are better suited to justice than the unjust people because unjust people accomplish very little. In the just state, each person has a specific set of responsibilities, a set of obligations to the community which, if everyone accomplishes them, will result in a harmonious whole. When people do what they are supposed to do, they receive whatever credit and reward they earn, and if they fail to do their task, they are properly punished. In the passage, Thrasymachus is saying that “even if the just man suffers no other penalty, it is his lot to see his domestic affairs deteriorate from neglect, while he gets no advantages from the public store, thanks to him being just” (Plato 21). In the debate, Socrates is also saying that the unjust people also have some modicum of justice that works to a certain extent. However, this is unsuitable in terms of a complete system of justice. The unjust people are always doing everything for their own benefit, they don’t think about anyone else but what is there for them. For example, Socrates says, “Then this benefit, getting wages, is for each not a result of his own art; but, if it must be considered precisely” (Plato 24). The unjust people will never do anything if they don’t see some benefits for themselves. A robber, for example, is unjust because he wants to have what is not his own. Overall, unjust people either do not understand the qualities and responsibilities appropriate to their condition in life, or treat someone worse than they deserves. Also, an unjust state fails to achieve the tasks of a state. On the other hand, the just person will never go against the just person because it will be unjust. Even if they are fighting for the same job position the just person will never go against another just person.