Monday Seminar Reschedule: Gorgias

29-Sep

Plato’s Gorgias

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1672/1672-h/1672-h.htm

Excerpt:

“Yes, indeed, but that was no answer to the question: nobody asked what was the quality, but what was the nature, of the art, and by what name we were to describe Gorgias. And I would still beg you briefly and clearly, as you answered Chaerephon when he asked you at first, to say what this art is, and what we ought to call Gorgias: Or rather, Gorgias, let me turn to you, and ask the same question,—what are we to call you, and what is the art which you profess?”