The city of Socrates: essay on the nature of true political art in Gorgias
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1983-4012.2019.1.26666Keywords:
Gorgias, Plato, Callicles, RecalcitranceAbstract
This work aims to investigate in what consists Callicles’ recalcitrance in Plato’s Gorgias. The key to the non-dialogue between Callicles and Socrates is, according to my hypothesis, the analogy between the lovers of the two characters. Socrates’ lovers, Alcebiades and philosophy, are an internalization (not an elimination) of the external conflict with Callicles. With this operation, Plato creates a complex relationship between the two modes of life at stake and, by the correspondence between soul and city, the non-dialogue unfolds itself in two distinct cities, one being the reverse of the other, as in the anecdote of the two speeches about Helena delivered by the historical Gorgias - who gives name to the dialogue.
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