Callicles

Thrasymachus withdraws sullenly, like Callicles in the Gorgias, but Socrates '“victory” fails to satisfy Glaucon and Adeimantus.

Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic Brown, Eric 2009

Tell me, then, Callicles, how about making any of the citizens better?

On Plato's Gorgias 2008

Gorgias dialogue – Callicles goes on an anti-philosophy rant, saying there is no harm in young people engaging in useless banter, but that it is unattractive in older men.

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Gorgias dialogue – Callicles goes on an anti-philosophy rant, saying there is no harm in young people engaging in useless banter, but that it is unattractive in older men.

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This apparent contradiction is cleared up when we consider what he had told Callicles a little earlier:

On Plato's Gorgias 2008

It is true, admits Socrates to Callicles, for whom might is right, that power comes through flattery, oratory and rhetoric.

On Plato's Gorgias 2008

Callicles admits that he has never known any such rhetorician – they've all been demagogues.

On Plato's Gorgias 2008

Callicles makes fun of him, saying, "He flies from the busy centre and the market-place, in which, as the poet says, men become distinguished; he creeps into a corner for the rest of his life, and talks in a whisper with three or four admiring youths, but never speaks out like a freeman in a satisfactory manner."

On Plato's Gorgias 2008

And yet Socrates tells Callicles: "I am the only politician of my time."

On Plato's Gorgias 2008

Was there ever a man who was once vicious, or unjust, or intemperate, or foolish, and became by the help of Callicles good and noble?

On Plato's Gorgias 2008