Methods of Reasoning About Justice in Plato's Republic

In The Blackwell Guide to Plato's "Republic". Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 125–145 (2006)
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This chapter contains section titled: The Empirical Method of Thrasymachus; The Contractarian Method of Glaucon; The Functional Method of Plato; The Significance of Methods.

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