Plato's Gorgias
In Our Time: Philosophy
What Socrates Is Doing in Plato's Dialogue, Is It Pointless?
Socrates does his interlocutors a great service by asking them to reflect on beliefs that they have about the topic under discussion. He gets people to see that actually, they have a really good reason, as good reason, sometimes better reason, for holding the opposite view than the view they started out with. And this is just what happens in this dialogue. So sure, they end up contradicting themselves, and he refutes them, and they often end up annoyid. But the dialogue really, ultimately, at the end of the day, is between plato and the reader.
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