Plato: Gorgias

In Gorgias, Plato unleashed one of his most searing critiques of power, rhetoric, and moral compromise. Socrates confronted three ambitious men—Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles—each who represented a different view of power and persuasion. Should we do what is right—or just what we can get away with? Callicles argued that morality was for the weak. Socrates […] The post Plato: Gorgias appeared first…