CONTENTS.
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Grote, George
Character of the Gorgias generally — discrediting all the actualities of life
355
Argument of Sokrates resumed — multifarious arts of flattery, aiming at immediate pleasure
357
The Rhetors aim at only flattering the public — even the best past Rhetors have done nothing else — citation of the four great Rhetors by Kallikles
357
Necessity for temperance, regulation, order. This is the condition of virtue and happiness
358
Impossible to succeed in public life, unless a man be thoroughly akin to and in harmony with the ruling force
359
Danger of one who dissents from the public, either for better or for worse
ib.
Sokrates resolves upon a scheme of life for himself — to study permanent good, and not immediate satisfaction
360
Sokrates announces himself as almost the only man at Athens, who follows out the true political art. Danger of doing this
361
Mythe respecting Hades, and the treatment of deceased persons therein, according to their merits during life — the philosopher who stood aloof from public affairs, will then be rewarded
ib.
Peculiar ethical views of Sokrates — Rhetorical or dogmatical character of the Gorgias
362
He merges politics in Ethics — he conceives the rulers as spiritual teachers and trainers of the community
ib.
Idéal of Plato — a despotic lawgiver or man-trainer, on scientific principles, fashioning all characters pursuant to certain types of his own
363
Platonic analogy between mental goodness and bodily health — incomplete analogy — circumstances of difference
ib.
Sokrates in the Gorgias speaks like a dissenter among a community of fixed opinions and habits. Impossible that a dissenter, on important points, should acquire any public influence
364
Sokrates feels his own isolation from his countrymen. He is thrown upon individual speculation and dialectic
365
Antithesis between philosophy and rhetoric
ib.
Position of one who dissents, upon material points, from the fixed opinions and creed of his countrymen
366
Probable feelings of Plato on this subject — Claim put forward in the Gorgias of an independent locus standi for philosophy, but without the indiscriminate cross-examination pursued by Sokrates
367
Importance of maintaining the utmost liberty of discussion. Tendency of all ruling orthodoxy towards intolerance
368
Issue between philosophy and rhetoric — not satisfactorily handled by Plato. Injustice done to rhetoric. Ignoble manner in which it is presented by Polus and Kalliklês
369