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Plato's Gorgias
In Our Time
Socrates's Dialogue Shifted Polus or Gogus?
Socrates says that he's the best politician of all. H it's stephani, a very striking claim. But i actually think he's deadly serious. Politicians as such are surely aiming to provide some benefit to the city and the citizens. That's at least their pretence, if not their real aim. And a character like calicles is going to emerge, who's going to try to be voted in through democratic means, but is actually then going to use his democratic position to destroy democracy. It's enormously powerful. So it's not surprising me that it was copied and distributed pretty quickly and made an impact. Brisbi we socrates,. o course, all this is written
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