ID: 107269629PHI 10505/17/20141)In The Republic, Thrasymachus and Socrates debate the advantage of justice. The main question was: does justice simply benefit the strongest? While Thrasymachus defines justice as "the advantage of the strong", Socrates finds fault in his definition and undermines Thrasymachus' notion of strength. According to Thrasymachus, justice is: “the advantage of the established government, and correct reasoning will conclude that the just is the same everywhere, the advantage of the strongest”. According to Socrates, “...There is no kind of knowledge which considers or commands the advantage of the stronger, but rather that which is weaker and governed by it. » He undermines Thrasymachus' arguments by taking several analogies, the captain of a ship who seeks the advantage of the sailors and in the case of medicine, they seek the advantage of the body and not the practitioner. To explain his analogies, Socrates states: "No other ruler, in any type of government, seeks, in so far as he is a ruler, what is for his own advantage..." However, according to him, "he does not seeks only that which is to the advantage of one's own advantage. subject, which is the specific concern of his profession…” Socrates defines Justice as “a virtue of the soul”. According to him, justice is when someone performs good deeds and uses their work and knowledge to benefit a common goal in society. Contrary to this, injustice occurs when a person works alone to achieve their own goal. According to Smith, the main concept that can maintain the organization of society is competition. From a political point of view ... middle of paper ... freedom of people to behave in the way they perceive to be right. Since it encourages the freedom of the individual, people will be able to develop their human faculties and, just like Mill's opinion, this will be better in the long run. Aristotle's and Mill's views on freedom are very similar. Mills believes that people should have the freedom to do what they think is right if it does not harm others. "Actions are good to the extent that they tend to promote happiness, bad to the extent that they tend to produce the opposite of happiness. By happiness we mean pleasure and the absence of pain..." Just like Mills, Aristotle believes that people should be able to choose activities that will bring them happiness. However, their views are also different. Unlike Mills, Aristotle views happiness not just as a feeling, but to be happy, people must also live their lives with virtue..