| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge critical guides |
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Cambridge critical guides.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Gorgias of Leontini and Plato's Gorgias -- 1.1 The Power of Speech -- 1.2 Power and Wish -- 1.3 Belief and Knowledge -- 1.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Ancient Readers of the Gorgias -- 2.1 Early Circulation -- 2.2 Isocrates -- 2.3 Aristotle -- 2.4 The Author of the Alcibiades II -- 2.5 Grammarians and Rhetorical Theorists -- 2.6 The History of Commentary -- 2.7 Our Extant Commentator -- 2.8 Conclusion -- Appendix -ikos and -ikôs in Isocrates -- Chapter 3 Philosophy and the Just Life in the Gorgias -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Philosophy's Introduction (481c5-486d1) -- 3.3 Philosophy's Promotion of the Just Life -- 3.4 Socrates' Account of Rhetoric -- 3.5 The Examined and Examining Life -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Socrates and Coherent Desire (Gorgias 466a-468e) -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Setup -- 4.3 Wanting and Thinking Best -- 4.4 Wanting as Reflective Desire -- 4.5 Orators and Tyrants -- Chapter 5 The Ethical Function of the Gorgias' Concluding Myth -- 5.1 The Myth -- 5.2 Embodiment and Death -- 5.3 Self-Defense, Justice, and Proportionality -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Shame in the Gorgias -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Shame, Rhetoric and Philosophy -- 6.3 Refuted out of Shame: Gorgias, Polus and Callicles -- 6.4 Shame, Conventions and Truth -- 6.5 Pedagogical Uses of Shame -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Desire and Argument in Plato's Gorgias -- 7.1 Getting Desires into the Frame -- 7.2 Callicles and Progress -- 7.3 Practice and Habituation -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Cooperation and the Search for Truth: Socrates and Callicles -- 8.1 Conflict or Cooperation? -- 8.2 Callicles and Democracy -- 8.3 Equality and Democracy -- 8.4 Democracy without Justice |
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8.5 The Coherence of Callicles' Position -- 8.6 Callicles as Interlocutor -- 8.7 Who Is Superior? -- 8.8 Why Hedonism? -- 8.9 Callicles on the Virtues -- 8.10 The Conflict in Callicles' Position -- Chapter 9 Freedom, Pleonexia, and Persuasion in Plato's Gorgias -- 9.1 Gorgias on the Benefits of Oratory -- 9.2 Callicles on Freedom, Pleonexia, and Natural Justice -- 9.3 Imperial Discourse as Callicles' Thought-World -- 9.4 Internal Conflicts in Callicles' Soul? -- 9.5 Politics inside and outside the Gorgias -- 9.6 Conclusion: The Power and the Limitations of Socratic Dialectic -- Chapter 10 Revealing Commitments -- 10.1 The Dispute -- 10.2 Antecedent Commitments -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 06, 2024) |
| Subject |
Plato. Gorgias.
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| SUBJECT |
Gorgias (Plato) fast |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shaw, J. Clerk, 1977- editor.
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| LC no. |
2023053959 |
| ISBN |
9781108687065 |
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1108687067 |
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9781108679176 |
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110867917X |
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