Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Thrasymachus/Sophist/Taureck: (~ 460 - 399): Main source: Plato, Republic.
He did not possess the Athenian citizenship and was therefore not allowed to speak in the people's assemblies.
Topics: Constitution, possibility and benefit of justice.
>Justice/Thrasymachus, >Sophists.

Additional literature on the sophists:

W. K C. Guthrie, The Sophists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971.
A. Laks and G. W. Most, Early Greek Philosophy 2016.
Richard Winton. "Herodotus, Thucydides, and the sophists" in: C.Rowe & M.Schofield, The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, Cambridge 2005.
Hermann Diels & Rosamond Kent Sprague (eds.) The Older Sophists a Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. With a New Ed. Of Antiphon and of Euthydemus. University of South Carolina Press 1972.
John Dillon and Tania Gergel. The Greek Sophists. UK: Penguin Group 2003.