Gorgias
Benjamin Jowett (1871)
Plato's Gorgias (c. 380 BC) is a dramatic confrontation between Socrates and three interlocutors—the rhetorician Gorgias, the brash Polus, and the ruthless Callicles—over the nature and worth of rhetoric and the good life. Socrates argues that rhetoric is mere flattery, that it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and that justice, not power, is the true good for the soul. One of the most forceful of the dialogues, it closes with a myth of judgment after death. The translation is Benjamin Jowett's.
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