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Gorgias (Oxford World's Classics) (Updated Edition) by Robin (Translator) Plato/ Waterfield, Robin Waterfield (Editor), Chris Emlyn-Jones, Vv.Aa. Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-19-954032-2 / 0199540322 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954032-7 / 9780199540327 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 |