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Callicles and Thrasymachus Essay Preview: Callicles and Thrasymachus Report this essay Callicles and Thrasymachus are the two great exemplars in Plato — in all of ancient philosophy — of contemptuous challenge to conventional morality. In the Gorgias and Book I of the Republic respectively, they denounce the virtue of justice, dikaiosunк, as an artificial brake.