Plato’s Gorgias: A Mini-Tutorial
Robert Paul Wolff is preparing to launch a mini-tutorial on Plato’s Gorgias at his blog, The Philosopher’s Stone; yesterday, he provided some background and an introduction to the text. I believe the first post on the text itself will be…
The Gorgias is a good introduction to several concepts important in both Platonic philosophy and Western philosophy in general— what is philosophy good for? what is the difference between philosophy and rhetoric? what is truth?
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I don’t know… I’ve liked Robert Paul Wolff’s work in the past, but that sounds like an awfully Straussian reading of...
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The Gorgias is a good introduction to several concepts important in both Platonic philosophy and Western philosophy in...
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For anybody interested in reading along but don’t want to shell out money for a book because when it’s thousands of...
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