In the reading selection from Plato’s Republic, Socrates gets Thrasymachus assert the contradictory claim that

a. knowledge is and is not attainable.
b. it is logically necessary that God exists and logically necessary that God does not exist.
c. there is and is not a given human nature.
d. justice is and is not doing what is in the interest of those in power.


d

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