Gorgias Wikipedia
Gorgias is an important Socratic Dialogue in which Plato sets the rhetorician, whose specialty is persuasion, in opposition to the philosopher, whose specialty is dissuasion, or refutation. The art of persuasion was widely…
- Introduction
- The Characters
- The set-up
- Physical and intellectual combat compared
- The debate about rhetoric
- The pitiful tyrant
- Callicles rants against philosophy
- Socrates debates with himself
- Philosophy is a bitter draught
- The Judgment of Naked Souls
- Translations
- References
- Footnotes
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Is it wrong to say that the characters in Gorgias do not really have a strong sense of personal value because their views were so easily swayed?
