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Marygrove College - WINTER 2009 | ||
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Gorgias (Oxford World's Classics) by Robin Waterfield (Translator) Plato, Robin Waterfield (Editor), Robin A. Waterfield Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-19-283630-7 / 0192836307 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283630-4 / 9780192836304 The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value of rhetoric, the dialogue soon becomes an investigation |