Thrasymachus And Socrates

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Thrasymachus ( fourth century) and the proposal that morals are forced on the feeble by the solid;

Socrates (fourth century) and the proposal that the ruler is not worried with his own advantage, but rather with that of the subject;

Hobbes (seventeenth century) and his announcement that morals give the ruler a privilege to summon and to be went along;

Nietzsche (nineteenth century) who proposed ethical quality is the production of 'the herd'(led more apprehension than

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