Who Is Thrasymachus Selfish

After that outburst from Thrasymachus showing pride of himself I asked Socrates what was all that about. He tells me that first I have to know who is Thrasymachus, and how he is portrayed in “The Republic” written by Plato. He is portrayed as a sophist and cynic who argues that people are selfish. By this argument that Thrasymachus yelled to us that “justice is in the interest of the strong and the subjects obeying the interest of the strong” he claims that whoever is at the top of the hierarchy is ultimately the one who has the most power, and that the ruler comes up with this rules on a self-interest base. He claims that justice is mostly the interest of the strong, and those who have more authoritarian power are those who rule the justice system and the system in general. As he states “in all states alike “right” has the same meaning, namely what is for the interest of the party established in power, and that is the strongest” (Thrasymachus, 13). Ultimately, each leader makes
Thrasymachus’ argument of might makes right goes better according to what I have seen from how the justice system works and how unfair society is when those in might, either monetary power or hierarchical power are always in advantage than those who do not have anything. Now a day’s society has shown us that the power of money rules over everything, if you have more money than someone else and you commit a crime then you can overrule that crime because might makes right. Although I think that Thrasymachus argument is true, I do not think that it fully applies to everything in relation to a government because several instances the people has the right to choose over who they want to represent them and I think that this power of choosing who they want limits in a certain way the power that leaders may