Book · 380 BC · Nonfiction

Gorgias

Name: Gorgias
Author: Plato

Hackett Pub. Co. · 113 pages

★ 7.6 editorial score

Callicles tells Socrates that morality is a con the weak run on the strong, who should take whatever they want. Socrates answers that doing wrong harms you more than suffering it ever could.

Medium

Dialogue

Subject

Rhetoric Truth

Setting

Greece

Time

380 BCDepicts Classical AntiquityDepicts 5th century BC

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