Plato's Gorgias
In Our Time: Philosophy
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The Relationship Between Power and Pleasure and Hedonism in Al S
In his first speech, Plato says it's a moral imperative for the superior person to appropriate power and a greater share of goods. He then initially thinks that commits him to ed hedonism. But socrates show calocles that he's not really an unqualified hedonist at all. The migt is right theory is never fully defeated in the gorgias - i think plato comes back to this in different but similar views.
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