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Gorgias

Socrates

Socrates argues with the rhetorician Gorgias, his pupil Polus and the politician Callicles about what rhetoric is and which life is best. Against Polus he maintains that it is better to suffer injustice than to commit it; against Callicles, who defends the right of the stronger and unbridled pleasure, that the ordered life is the happy one. It is Plato's most vehement dialogue and contains transparent allusions to Socrates' trial.