Callicles
Callicles believes Goodness and this feeling are the same thing.
What is pleasure?
Socrates speaks about these good forms of the flatteries of the mind.
What are exercise and medicine?
In Gorgias, Socrates argues that pleasure is not the same as this, which is what the soul truly wants.
What is Goodness?
According to Socrates, rhetoricians are currently not using rhetoric for good because rhetoric does not teach this.
What is morality?
This character in Gorgias believes that the "best" person should pursue as much pleasure as possible, even through immoral actions. Additionally, he thought that pleasure is always good, unless of course he is caught in a contradiction, to which he’ll just claim that he was “joking” with Socrates the whole time.
Who is Callicles?
Callicles' philosophy is consistent with this general saying.
What is Might Makes Right?
Socrates speaks about these good forms of the flatteries of the mind.
What are legislation and justice?
According to Socrates as well as an ancient Greek myth, living an unvirtuous life may result in one’s soul being sent to this place in the afterlife.
What is Tartarus?
Contrasting with Callicles' conception of power (i.e., the power to do whatever you want or have your enemies killed), Socrates argued that power is truly attained through exercising this virtue.
What is self-control?
Socrates compares rhetoric to this type of sweet but ultimately unhealthy substance, suggesting it deceives people about moral improvement.
What is candy?
Callicles believes that those who are superior have more of this.
What is stuff?
Socrates discusses these flatteries of the body.
What are cosmetics and candy-making?
According to Socrates, as well as an ancient Greek myth, living a virtuous life will result in your soul being sent to this place.
What is the Isle of the Blessed?
According to Socrates, rhetoric works on these kinds of people.
What are ignorant people/non experts?
This character in Gorgias argues that rhetoric is the art of persuasion, even if it involves persuading people to believe falsehoods.
Who is Gorgias?
Callicles believes one can avoid being a victim of injustice by doing this.
Socrates discusses these flatteries of the mind
What are sophistry and rhetoric?
Socrates used this analogy to describe individuals who cannot exhibit self-control by limiting their desires.
What is a leaky jar?
In this chapter of Gorgias, Socrates examines the question of who is fit or suitable for ruling society.
What is Worthiness or Worthy of Power?
The five characters in Plato's Gorgias.
Who are Socrates, Gorgias, Callicles, Polus, and Chaerephon?
Callicles argues that this is in conflict with society/tradition/convention/law.
What is reality/nature?
Socrates believes that flattery is likened to this thing that merely seeks to produce pleasure.
What is a trick/knack/experience?
According to Socrates, being moral and just is preferable to being immoral and unjust because morality leads to this, both within the individual and within society.
What is order/harmony?
Socrates argues that this type of power—exercised through immoral acts—will eventually harm the soul.
What is Political power?
In Gorgias, Socrates challenges Polus' defense of rhetoric, arguing that power used immorally leads to harming this part of an individual.
What is the soul?