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Plato's Gorgias depicts a conversation between Socrates and a number of guests, which centers on the question of how one should live. This "choice of lives" is presented both as a choice between philosophy and ordinary political rhetoric, and as a choice between justice and injustice. The essays in this Critical Guide offer detailed analyses of each of the main candidates in the choice of lives, and of how the advocates for these ways of life understand and argue with each other. Several essays also relate the Gorgias to the philosophical and political context of its time and place. Together, these features of the volume illuminate the interpretive issues in the Gorgias and enable readers to achieve a thorough understanding of the philosophical issues which the work raises.
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PhilosophySubtopic
Ancient & Classical PhilosophyTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Imprints page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Gorgias of Leontini and Plato’s Gorgias
- Chapter 2 Ancient Readers of the Gorgias
- Chapter 3 Philosophy and the Just Life in the Gorgias
- Chapter 4 Socrates and Coherent Desire (Gorgias 466a–468e)
- Chapter 5 The Ethical Function of the Gorgias’ Concluding Myth
- Chapter 6 Shame in the Gorgias
- Chapter 7 Desire and Argument in Plato’s Gorgias
- Chapter 8 Cooperation and the Search for Truth: Socrates and Callicles
- Chapter 9 Freedom, Pleonexia, and Persuasion in Plato’s Gorgias
- Chapter 10 Revealing Commitments
- Bibliography
- Index
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