The Unity of Plato's Gorgias
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The Unity of Plato's Gorgias
| Full title | The Unity of Plato's Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic Life |
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| Author | Devin Stauffer |
| Published | 2006 |
| Pages | 191 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Devin Stauffer’s close reading of Plato’s Gorgias, arguing that its three conversations — with Gorgias, Polus and the frankly anti-philosophic Callicles — form one argument about the rivalry between rhetoric and philosophy as ways of life, letting Plato state the case for the persuasive, power-seeking life at its strongest before answering it. |
The Unity of Plato’s Gorgias
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, March 2026, in the Classical Greek Political Philosophy section, immediately after the Gorgias itself — the section’s pattern of pairing a primary text with a scholarly guide. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Plato — the dialogue’s author; the page it commentates.
- Socrates — the interlocutor whose defence of philosophy against rhetoric is the book’s subject.
- Rhetoric — the practice the Gorgias puts on trial.
- Justice — Callicles’ challenge to it is the dialogue’s hinge.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
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