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5 results for "law"

1. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 692

340a. are commanded to perform. Yes, by Zeus, Socrates, said Polemarchus, nothing could be more conclusive. of course, said Cleitophon, breaking in, if you are his witness. What need is there of a witness? Polemarchus said. Thrasymachus himself admits that the rulers sometimes enjoin what is evil for themselves and yet says that it is just for the subjects to do this. That, Polemarchus, is because Thrasymachus laid it down that it is just to obey the orders of the rulers. Yes, Cleitophon, but he also took the position that the advantage of the stronger is just.

2. Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, 4.9-4.12 (1st cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •law (nomos), and power in anaxarchus Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 692, 693

3. Plutarch, Alexander The Great, 50-52, 28 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 693

4. Plutarch, On Compliancy, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •law (nomos), and power in anaxarchus Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 693

5. Sextus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, 1.23 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •law (nomos), and power in anaxarchus Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 693

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