
Callicles, The Ancient Nietzsche, Rips Democracy (Gorgias 5)
Political Philosophy
Is Socrates a Man?
Caliocles says Socrates spent all his time having conversations about high pollutant things like the truth and goodness. CaliPley: A real man already knows what will make them happy at a sort of instinctual level. When I see an older man still studying philosophy, that man Socrates is actually asking for a whipping,. such a man, even if exceptionally gifted, is doomed to prove less than a man.
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