Gorgias

By Plato (Platon)

Book Id: WPLBN0002951310
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File Size: 204.80 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Gorgias
Author:	Plato (Platon)
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Ancient Texts, Philosophy
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Gorgias
Historic Publication Date:	1871
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago (Platon), B. P. (1871). Gorgias. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of Republic and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The spirituality, as Jowett points out in his wonderful introduction, has many ideas akin to Christianity, but is more generous as it reserves damnation only for the tyrants of the world. Some of the truths of Socrates, as presented by Plato, shine forth in this wonderful work on sophistry and other forms of persuasion or cookery. (Summary by Kevin Johnson)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Ancient Texts, Philosophy, Satire