The Gorgias

By Jowett, Benjamin

Book Id: WPLBN0000651625
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Gorgias
Author:	Jowett, Benjamin
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Benjamin, 1817-189, B. J. (n.d.). The Gorgias. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Excerpt
Introduction: In several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his interpreters as to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the main thesis. The speakers have the freedom of conversation; no severe rules of art restrict them, and sometimes we are inclined to think, with one of the dramatis personae in the Theaetetus, that the digressions have the greater interest.