Mightier, Freer, and More Masterful

“So Socrates, injustice, when it comes into being on a sufficient scale, is mightier, freer, and more masterful than justice, and as I have said from the beginning, the just is the advantage of the stronger, and the unjust is what is profitable and advantageous for oneself.”

Thrasymachus has just finished his argument on just versus being unjust. He suggest that injustice has the advantage. He is right in saying so, but this is the reason justice is held up so highly and viewed as lovely. Just is quite possible a gift. A person who is completely just is few and hard to find. This is because like Thrasymachus says, injustice makes one freer. Injustice requires nothing--little effort--from a person. A person takes what he wants and goes where he pleases; indeed, he is free. The question that remains is this: Is it more profitable for the soul to be unjust or in other terms selfish? This would depend on an individual's priorities, really. 

I commented on Mary-Kate's: http://honorsblogging.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-strength-of-just.html?showComment=1413263739116&m=1#c1407533541439030363