Henry Liang I believe Socrates’ criticism of Thrasymachus’ view was correct in the way that leaders or rulers do not use their subjects to be advantageous. Socrates drew many different analogies to refute Thrasymachus’ views on political leaders, which he spoke of the crafts of doctors and a ship’s captain. Socrates eventually comes to the conclusion that, “No kind of knowledge seeks or orders what is advantageous to itself, then, but what advantageous to the weaker, which is subject to it” (Page 19). This conclusion goes against Thrasymachus’s ideas by saying that leaders or rulers provide advantages for their subjects instead of trying to gain an advantage by using them. Socrates’ analogy of a captain and the sailors on a ship showed the
