In his canonical work The Republic, Plato grapples with the topic of justice. He provides several alternative theories of justice throughout the dialectic through the literary manipulation of the characters in the piece. The characters of Thrasymachus (whose opinion has been the subject of lengthy debate ) and Socrates both provide accounts of justice that fall into a three-part typology of ethics provided by Lee C. McDonald in his “Three Forms of Political Ethics” (1978). In this essay, I attempt to make two claims concurrently: (1) that interpretations of both characters’ descriptions of justice fall into each of the categories that McDonald provides and can be used to elucidate McDonald’s claims about each of the three categories, and