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Gorgias
Plato · Classical · c. 380 BCE
Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1871)
9 chapters
A confrontation with the rhetorician Gorgias and his pupils on whether persuasion is a true art and whether it is better to do or to suffer injustice.
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Contents
- 1Meeting Gorgias: What Is Rhetoric?
- 2Rhetoric as Flattery
- 3Polus: The Power of Orators
- 4Why It Is Better to Suffer Than to Do Injustice
- 5Punishment as the Cure of the Soul
- 6Callicles: The Law of the Stronger
- 7The Two Kinds of Pleasure, and the True Good
- 8The Indictment of the Athenian Statesmen
- 9The Myth of Judgment
