Plato's Gorgias - A Critical Guide

This Critical Guide offers detailed analysis of all parts of Plato's Gorgias, together with diverse perspectives on its advocacy of a philosophical, just life as against a life of rhetoric and injustice.

List of contents

Introduction Clerk Shaw; 1. Gorgias of Leontini and Plato's Gorgias Josh Wilburn; 2. Ancient Readers of the Gorgias Harold Tarrant; 3. Philosophy and the Just Life in the Gorgias Hugh Benson; 4. Socrates and Coherent Desire (Gorgias 466a - 468e) Eric Brown and Clerk Shaw; 5. The Ethical Function of the Gorgias' Concluding Myth Nich Baima; 6. Shame in the Gorgias Olivier Renaut; 7. Desire and Argument in Plato's Gorgias Frisbee Sheffield; 8. Cooperation and the Search for Truth: Socrates and Callicles Terence Irwin; 9. Freedom, Pleonexia, and Persuasion in Plato's Gorgias Ryan Balot; 10. Revealing Commitments Alison Murphy; Bibliography; General index.

Product details

• Assisted by: Shaw J. Clerk (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781108729123
• ISBN: 978-1-108-72912-3
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Critical Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Ethics & moral philosophy, Classical texts, Ancient World, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, BCE to c 500 CE, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, c 1 to c 500 CE