Plato's Gorgias
Plato's Gorgias
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Summary
This Critical Guide offers detailed analysis of all parts of Plato's Gorgias, together with diverse perspectives on its advocacy of a philosophical, just life as against a life of rhetoric and injustice.
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Plato's Gorgias by J Clerk Shaw
Plato's Gorgias depicts a conversation between Socrates and a number of guests, which centers on the question of how one should live. This "choice of lives" is presented both as a choice between philosophy and ordinary political rhetoric, and as a choice between justice and injustice. The essays in this Critical Guide offer detailed analyses of each of the main candidates in the choice of lives, and of how the advocates for these ways of life understand and argue with each other. Several essays also relate the Gorgias to the philosophical and political context of its time and place. Together, these features of the volume illuminate the interpretive issues in the Gorgias and enable readers to achieve a thorough understanding of the philosophical issues which the work raises.
J. Clerk Shaw is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Plato's Anti-Hedonism and the Protagoras (Cambridge, 2015) and a number of journal articles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108492218 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108492215 |
| Title | Plato's Gorgias |
| Author | J Clerk Shaw |
| Series | Cambridge Critical Guides |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2024-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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