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Gorgias (Xist Classics) - Plato, Benjamin Jowett
Gorgias (Xist Classics)
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The Nature of Rhetoric“If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.” - Gorgias, Plato Gorgias is dialogue written by Plato, based on a conversation between Socrates and a small group of sophists at a dinner gathering, where Socrates... show more
The Nature of Rhetoric“If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.” - Gorgias, Plato Gorgias is dialogue written by Plato, based on a conversation between Socrates and a small group of sophists at a dinner gathering, where Socrates debates with the sophist seeking the true definition of rhetoric. It is a study of virtue founded upon an inquiry into the nature of rhetoric, art, power, temperance, justice, and good versus evil.
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN: 9781681956954
ASIN: B01DCHE8PA
Publisher: Xist Classics
Pages no: 171
Edition language: English
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5.0 Gorgias
This book is a masterpiece. It includes a critical text, and a line-by-line philological commentary. But even the reader without Greek will learn an enormous amount about Plato and related topics by reading it alongside a translation -- just skip all the entries dealing with purely philological mat...
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4.0 Plato on the virtuous life
It is difficult to put a date of composition to such a text, though internal comments can assist us with determining when it was written. While I do not consider myself an expert on Plato, I would consider this text to be one of his earlier writings as he seems to be recording an earlier conversatio...
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