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A comprehensive study of one of the most elusive and subtle of all the Platonic dialogues. The Gorgias begins with a discussion of the nature and value of rhetoric and develops into an impassioned argument for the primacy of absolute right (as expressed by conscience) in the regulation of both public and private life. Plochmann and Robinson closely analyze this great dialogue in the first two-thirds of their book, turning in the final four chapters to a broader discussion of its unity, sweep, and philosophic implications.
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Plato.--Gorgias, Ethics, Political science--Early works to 1800.
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1988
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B371.P55 1988eb
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Plato.--Gorgias, Ethics, Political science--Early works to 1800.
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A Friendly Companion to Plato's Gorgias
by George Kimball Plochmann and Franklin E. Robinson
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS CARBONDALE AND EDWARDSVILLE
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Copyright 1988 by the Board of Trustees Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Edited by Joyce Atwood Designed by Joanna Hill Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Plochmann, George Kimball, 1914 A friendly companion to Plato's Gorgias. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Plato. Gorgias. 2. Ethics. 3. Political scienceEarly works to 1700. I. Robinson, Franklin E. (Franklin Edward), 1940 II. Title. B371.P55 1988 170 87-12884 ISBN 0-8093-1404-5
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To our much-loved families
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Aristotle, in a dialogue now lost, tells of a farmer from Corinth who was so impressed by the Gorgias that he gave up farming, went to Athens, enrolled in the Academy, and put himself entirely in Plato's hands.
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CONTENTS
Figures
xi
Preface
xiii
Introduction: Reading the Gorgias
xix
Summary Topical Outline of the Gorgias
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Part One: Conversation with Gorgias
1
1. Prologue: Who Is Gorgias, What Is He? (447a449c)
3
2. Rhetoric, Just and Unjust (449c461b)
23
Part Two: Conversation with Polus
51
3. The Divided Oblong (461b466a)
53
4. Rhetoric Without Power (466a481b)
73
Part Three: Conversation with Callicles
101
5. Power above the Law (481b492c)
103
6. Pleasures Unlimited (492c499b)
142
7. Whether There Are Two Lives? (499c506c)
165
8. What Differences Between the Two Lives? (506c520e)
184
9. Which Life Ought We to Live? (521a527e)
220
Part Four: Unity of the Dialogue
247
10. Rhetoric and the Three Rhetors
249
11. Socrates
274
12. Antecedents and Consequents of the Divided Oblong
296
13. Rhetoric, Knowledge, Reality
318
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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FIGURES
3.1. Preliminary descriptions of rhetoric.
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3.2. Order of construction of the Divided Oblong.
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3.3. Tilted Divided Oblong.
68
4.1. Tilted Divided Oblong.
78
4.2. Tilted Divided Oblong.
78
4.3. Whether happiness and wickedness are compatible.
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