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The Conversation with Gorgias
Arrival, and Polus Praises without Defining
Rhetoric Defined, and Tested Against the Other Crafts
Persuasion Is Belief, Not Knowledge
Gorgias Boasts of Rhetoric's Power, and Contradicts Himself
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The Conversation with Polus
Rhetoric as Flattery, Not a Craft
Tyrants and Orators Have the Least Power
Better to Suffer Than to Do Wrong: The Paradox and Archelaus
Proving Injustice Worse Than Suffering It
Punishment as Medicine for the Soul
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The Conversation with Callicles
Callicles Interrupts: Nature Against Convention
The Many Prove Collectively Stronger Than the One
Hedonism Declared, and the Coward's Equal Pleasure
The Choice of Lives: Philosophy or Flattery of the Crowd
What a Soul-Improving Statesman Would Look Like
The Argument's Bonds of Iron and Adamant
Currying a Tyrant's Favour, and the Craft That Saves Lives
Did the Great Statesmen Make Athens Better, or Only Bigger?
The True Political Craft, and a Trial Foreseen
The Myth of Judgment