Plato's GorgiasBell, 1864 - 146 pages |
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Page xxiv
... Polus and Callicles in this dialogue , and the thoroughly selfish objects which they pro- pose to themselves as the end of a political career and of rhetoric its instrument , as also from the more direct state- ments of the gravest and ...
... Polus and Callicles in this dialogue , and the thoroughly selfish objects which they pro- pose to themselves as the end of a political career and of rhetoric its instrument , as also from the more direct state- ments of the gravest and ...
Page xxxiii
... Polus is marked the unsteady wavering between the admiration of external power and splendour without regard to moral considerations , and yet on the other side a reluc- tance to deny that right is more fair and noble than wrong . Plato ...
... Polus is marked the unsteady wavering between the admiration of external power and splendour without regard to moral considerations , and yet on the other side a reluc- tance to deny that right is more fair and noble than wrong . Plato ...
Page xxxvi
... Polus , the youthful disciple of Gorgias , who shows himself in the course of it inordinately vain , hot headed , intemperate , prone to exagge- rate and moreover devoid of any deep or true insight into the questions which he professes ...
... Polus , the youthful disciple of Gorgias , who shows himself in the course of it inordinately vain , hot headed , intemperate , prone to exagge- rate and moreover devoid of any deep or true insight into the questions which he professes ...
Page xxxvii
... Polus now asserts that teaching justice does not lie within the province of rhetoric at all ; and after some pre- liminary sparring , and an awkward attempt on his part to get at Socrates ' own definition of the art , the latter at ...
... Polus now asserts that teaching justice does not lie within the province of rhetoric at all ; and after some pre- liminary sparring , and an awkward attempt on his part to get at Socrates ' own definition of the art , the latter at ...
Page xxxix
... Polus in his bungling attempt to carry on the argument by putting questions to Socrates had been very anxious to get him to admit that Rhetoric is a very fine thing because it confers great power upon its possessor ; he now endeavours ...
... Polus in his bungling attempt to carry on the argument by putting questions to Socrates had been very anxious to get him to admit that Rhetoric is a very fine thing because it confers great power upon its possessor ; he now endeavours ...
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Page xix - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.