Glaucon and Thrasymachus Plato’s Republic has six main characters, Glaucon, Adeimantus, Thrasymachus, Cephalus, Polymarchus and Socrates. The Republic is a dialogue between Socrates and each of these five men, the topic is justice, what it means to be just, who is just and why they choose to be just. Each man holds his own opinion and tries to convince Socrates that theirs is the correct answer. For the use of this paper I will …showed first 75 words of 1068 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1068 total…In having this courage Glaucon shows us again that he is a virtuous man. Thrasymachus and Glaucon are two very different characters who bring two very different points of view to the dialogue. One thinking himself to be wise and finding out otherwise, by drowning himself in his own opinions; the other, satisfied with knowing that he is not wise, but in the same still striving to learn from others and the world around him.