GORGIAS

gôrˈjēəs, c.485–c.380 b.c., Greek Sophist. From his native city, Leontini, Sicily, he was sent as an ambassador to Athens, where he settled to teach and practice rhetoric. Gorgias pursued the negative implications of the Eleatic school and asserted: (1) Nothing exists; (2) If anything does exist, it cannot be known; (3) If it can be known, the knowledge of it cannot be communicated. Objective truth being thus impossible, there remains only the art of the Sophists, persuasion. Such arguments undermined the foundations of polytheism and led to open challenges of current moral standards. His challenge to speculative thought stimulated a more sophisticated approach to the problems of philosophy. A dialogue of Plato's bears his name.

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A Friendly Companion to Plato's Gorgias
Book by George Kimball Plochmann, Franklin E. Robinson; Southern Illinois University Press, 1988
Subjects: Ethics, Plato--Gorgias, Political Science--Early Works To 1800
when Gorgias is losing 458d , and Callicles says he...conversation so much; and still later 497b when Gorgias urges Callicles to continue, even though...young man is about to suffer the fate of Gorgias. There appears to be a real reluctance...
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Plato: Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium, with Passages from the Republic and Laws
Book by Lane Cooper, Plato; Oxford University Press, 1938
Subjects: Plato, Socrates
GORGIAS. Utterances. SOCRATES. What sort of utterances, Gorgias? Do you mean the sort that point out to the sick the regimen they should follow in order to be well? GORGIAS. No. SOCRATES. Then rhetoric is not concerned with...
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Gorgias
Book by Robin Waterfield, Plato; Oxford University Press, 1994
Subjects: Ethics--Early Works To 1800, Political Science--Early Works To 1800
...but no one asked you what qualities Gorgias area of expertise has. The question...you do the same now, and tell us what Gorgias area of expertise is and what we should call him? Or rather, Gorgias, wont you tell us yourself what your...
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Gorgias
Book by Plato; Bobbs-Merrill, 1952
Subjects: Ethics
...what I mean? Chaer. I do. Tell me, Gorgias, is it true, as Callicles here claims...answer whatever anyone asks you? 448 Gorgias . Quite true, Chaerephon. Just a short...So I expect you find answering easy, Gorgias? Gorg. Why dont you try and see, Chaerephon...
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Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life
Book by Daniel Russell; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Conduct Of Life, Pleasure
...have them. 13 As he says to Callicles ( Gorgias 492d3-5), Please, I beg you, do...kind of person Callicles thinks is best ( Gorgias 497d-499b). Consequently, the view...end, in the eudemonists sense. 14 Cf. Gorgias 467c ff. for Platonic examples of what...
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Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric
Journal article by Christopher Lyle Johnstone; Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 40, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric (Book)--Book reviews
Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric. by Christopher Lyle Johnstone Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric. By Bruce McComisky...reconstructed and elaborated the views of Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, and other 5th-century teachers and...
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The Myth of the Last Judgment in the Gorgias
Journal article by Alessandra Fussi; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 54, 2001
Subjects: Gorgias (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Judgment Day--Philosophy, Plato--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Soul--History of doctrines
The myth of the last judgment in the Gorgias by Alessandra Fussi AT THE END OF A VERY...of the Phaedo, the Republic, and the Gorgias as follows: "there that is, in the...the judged, and here that is, in the Gorgias about the judges who render the verdict...
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Stauffer, Devin. the Unity of Plato's Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice and the Philosophic Life
Journal article by Eric Buzzetti; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Unity of Plato's Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice and the Philosophic Life (Book)--Book reviews
...Stauffer, Devin. the Unity of Platos Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice and the Philosophic...STAUFFER, Devin. The Unity of Platos Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice and the Philosophic...vindicates definitively the unity of the Gorgias. If scholars have hitherto struggled...
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Ranasinghe, Nalin. Socrates in the Underworld: On Plato's Gorgias
Journal article by Scott Crider; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 63, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Socrates in the Underworld: On Plato's Gorgias (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Socrates in the Underworld: On Platos Gorgias. by Scott Crider RANASINGHE, Nalin. Socrates in the Underworld: On Platos Gorgias. South Bend: St. Augustines Press...frequently wise interpretation of the Gorgias. Socrates in the Underworld offers a...
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Athens, the Unjust Student of Rhetoric: a Dramatic Historical Interpretation of Plato's Gorgias
Journal article by Michael Svoboda; Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 37, 2007
Subjects: Literary criticism, Plato (427-347 BC), Political alliances, Politics, Rhetoric
...Dramatic Historical Interpretation of Platos Gorgias by Michael Svoboda Introduction Near the...Warner) This study argues that Platos Gorgias is best understood as a response to the...sophists who come to teach it.1 Thus Gorgias underestimates the danger-both to his...
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magazine articles on: Gorgias  - 18 results

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Plato: Complete Works
Magazine article by Seth Benardete; New Criterion, Vol. 16, February 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Plato: Complete Works. (Book)--Reviews
...sophistry proper, are dealt with in the Gorgias and Protagoras respectively. And the...sophistry of Protagoras and the rhetoric of Gorgias, and that even a reformed Gorgianic rhetoric...set of political dialogues, for in the Gorgias Socrates makes rhetoric out to be the...
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In the Midst of a Second American Revolution
Magazine article by Nancy Salvato; World and I, Vol. 21, June 2006
Subjects: Gramsci, Antonio--Works, Philosophers--Works, Political power--Analysis, Power (Social sciences)--Analysis, Rand, Ayn--Works, Universals (Philosophy)--Analysis, Universals and individuals (Philosophy)--Analysis
...better reason, to prove that black is white. Some, like Gorgias, asserted that it was not necessary to have any knowledge of a subject to give satisfactory replies as regards it. Thus, Gorgias ostentatiously answered any question on any subject instantly...
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The Character of Margaret Thatcher
Magazine article by Robert Royal; World and I, Vol. 13, August 1998
Subjects: England--Political aspects, Leadership--Analysis, Thatcher, Margaret--Behavior
...of external constraints. The character Callicles in Platos Gorgias, for example, argues with Socrates that not only do the stronger...Saturday Evening Post July/August 1989, 61. (2.) Plato, Gorgias, 491e-492a. (3.) Aristotle, Politics, 1327b. (4...
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Why Eminem Is Important
Magazine article by M.P. Mccrillis; World and I, Vol. 18, March 2003
Subjects: Eminem--Behavior, Rap singers
...because "no man is a good citizen alone, as Plato teaches us in his dialogue Gorgias." Bennett may be right, and his sense of Socrates position on art in the Gorgias may be right. The problem is that Bennett doesnt explain how he knows his own...
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Was Socrates a Democrat? Melissa Lane Looks at the Reputation of Socrates, Both at the Time of His Death and in Subsequent Debates about Democracy
Magazine article by Melissa Lane; History Today, Vol. 52, January 2002
Subjects: Democracy--Analysis, Philosophers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Socrates--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...by taking pains to turn out as many competent politicians as possible? (Memorabilia I.6.15). Similarly, in Platos Gorgias Socrates calls himself the only true politician. More subtly, in Platos Apology, Socrates declares that he has been a necessary...
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The Senate's Global-Warming Circus; Overreaching EPA Goes Rogue
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 15, 2010
Subjects: Air pollution control--Political aspects, Air pollution--Political aspects, Air quality management--Political aspects, Global warming--Political aspects
...literally was drafted in part by BP. Mrs. Boxer ended her speech with a picture of a bird covered in oil - sophistry of which Gorgias would be proud. Then there was the absurd suggestion, put forth by Sen. Jim Webb, Virginia Democrat, among others, that...


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encyclopedia articles on: Gorgias  - 5 results

 
 
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Gorgias
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GORGIAS gor je s, c.485 c.380 b.c., Greek Sophist. From his native city...ambassador to Athens, where he settled to teach and practice rhetoric. Gorgias pursued the negative implications of the Eleatic school and asserted...
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Sophists
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sophist and to receive payment for his instruction. He and Gorgias were respected thinkers, but others after them, notably Thrasymachus...Modern studies have stressed the contributions of Protagoras and Gorgias to a theory of knowledge and to ethics. They are frequently...
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Emmaus , in the Bible
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Place, outside Jerusalem, where Cleopas and another disciple met the risen Christ. 2 Place, where Judas Maccabeus defeated Gorgias. It is now called Imwas (West Bank) and lies halfway between Jerusalem and Jaffa, Israel...
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Skepticism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...objective reality. The Sophists were the earliest group of skeptics. Protagoras taught the relativity of knowledge, and Gorgias held that either nothing could be known, or if anything were known, it could not be communicated. Pyrrho , regarded as the...
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Plato
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...chiefly the Apology, which presents the defense of Socrates; the Meno, which asks whether virtue can be taught; and the Gorgias, which concerns the absolute nature of right and wrong. These early dialogues present Socrates in conversations that illustrate...


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