In my opinion, Thrasymachus was referencing “justice is the advantage of the stronger” to people who have the authority or power to make rules and regulations for others to follow; Thus abiding by the laws and one will be Just, however, if one should break that laws, he /she is unjust. He then cited an example for Socrates that “the different forms of government make laws democratically, aristocratically, tyrannical, with a view to their several interests; and these laws, which are made by them for their own interests, are the justice which they deliver to their subjects, and him who transgresses them they punish as a breaker of the law, and unjust”(paragraph 8.233). That is what he meant when he said, “ in all states, there is the same principle
