Socrates' Defence of Virtue

Socrates faced an even more radical opponent, calicles. Calicles accuses socrates of exploiting the feelings of shame felt by both gorgius and polus. He says justice is nothing but a trick for getting the strong to surrender their natural right to seize as much pleasure as they can handle. Socrates thinks that the life callicles describes sounds more like a life of slavery than mastery. The allegory represents a fundamental flaw of hedonism which that pleasure seeking is an endless task.