We noted that Plato begins this dialogue with a declaration of war. The Gorgias is a…
When Polus starts to launch into a speech, Socrates brushes him aside. He wants a…
Plato’s dialogue Gorgias begins in medias res. Socrates arrives late to a public lecture given by the…
In the intellectual world of Athens, too, things were looking up. Since the death of Socrates in 399…
It is easy to get lost in the marvel that is Socrates. Affable, idiosyncratic, self-deprecatory, incurably…
When Socrates died in 399 BC, the world that he had known was passing away. The middle of the fifth…
After Socrates’ eventful day in the world of the sophists we can make some observations. The sophists…
In Socrates’ lifetime the big new thing intellectually was the Sophistic Movement. The…
Standing before the five hundred jurors, the king archon, the accusers, the witnesses, and a miscellaneous…
The idea that might makes right was certainly not new in Socrates’ time. The early poet Hesiod expressed this…