The Republic

Plato argued that the just man was a type of thief to show that the just man shouldn't be defined as someone who is good at keeping money safe.

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It was actually Polemarchus who felt that a “just person is a kind of thief". He actually said that just people are best at keeping money, or other items safe.

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