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Plato's Gorgias

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Socrates's Rhetorical Skills Are Good Use of Your Rhetorical Skills

The most important thing for your well being in this life and the next is the care of your soul. But wronging others is going to greatly damage your soul, says socrates. And it's much worse for you if you wrong others than if they wrong you. You are the only person who can harm your own soul by wrong doing. If you do happen to wrong somebody else, which, of course, is not ideal, but if you do, the best course of remedial action you can take is to ask to be punished as this will partly cleanse your soul.

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