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Thrasymachus Proposal on Justice Student Name Institutional Affiliation Course Code Instructor Date All humans deserve to be treated fairly; justice should always prevail over all people regardless of social status or any other societal demarcation. Thus, Thrasymachus' proposition that justice is whatever is in the interests of the powerful, goes against the rights of those who are not in power (Plato, Republic, Book 1, n.d.). The statement presents several hiccups. Such a statement has a purely relative and subjective meaning, and it reduces the idea of universality or absolutism in moral values. When justice is conferred only by the ruling class's varying ideas and self-interests, it becomes rather arbitrary, susceptible to the standard of change and fluctuations based on changes in power dynamics. Also, it reduces justice to m...