The Common Origins of Philosophical and Political Power in Plato's Gorgias
Plato’s Gorgias concerns the tension between political and philosophical power. In it, Socrates and Gorgias discuss rhetoric’s power, which Gorgias claims is universal, containing all powers, enabling the rhetorician to rule over others politically. Polus and Callicles develop Gorgias’s understandi...
Main Author: | Lydia Winn |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Coimbra University Press
2021-01-01
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Series: | Plato |
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Online Access: | https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/8755 |
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