might makes rightとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• might is right

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 might is right, first attested in the 14th century. The concept is expressed by various classical authors; a similar argument is notably attributed to Thrasymachus by Plato in the Republic 340a (in Paul Shorey’s translation, “the advantage of the stronger is just”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈmaɪ̯t meɪ̯ks ˈɹaɪ̯t/, [ˈmaɪ̯t me̞ɪ̯ks ˈɹaɪ̯t]
• 韻: -aɪt

ことわざ

might makes right

1. What is right or wrong is determined by power and strength; power justifies itself.

使用する際の注意点

• Frequently invoked sarcastically or with pejorative attribution to decry the immorality of one's opponent.

参考

• argumentum ad baculum
• for my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law
• history is written by the victors
• kratocracy, kraterocracy
• the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
• vae victis

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