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HoP 020 - Virtue Meets Its Match - Plato's Gorgias

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Teacher of Rhetoric Is Like a Teacher of Boxing

The real historical gorgius argued that if helen was persuaded to go to troy using words, then she was in effect compelled to go just as surely as if she had been dragged there by force. A teacher of rhetoric is like a teacher of boxing - it's not his fault if the students go off and use their new found prowess to clabber their friends or parents. The claim to teach virtue is strongly associated with some sophists like protagoras but evidence from other sources has him claiming to teach only rhetoric and not virtue.

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