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Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 2: War and Battle

12-6-2024 < Counter Currents 32 146 words
 



Socrates in the Agora. (Image source: kriserdmann at Freepik.)


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Part 2 of 10 (Part 1 here)


The first word of the Gorgias is polemos, war, and it is spoken by Callicles:


War and battle, this, they say, is how you should do your part in them, Socrates.






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