Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC.

As a scholar Thompson devoted his attention almost entirely to Plato ; and his Phaedrus ( 1868 ) and Gorgias ( 1871 ), with especially valuable introductions, remained as the standard English editions of these two dialogues for over forty years.

Equally important to later developments are texts on poetry, rhetoric, and sophistry, including many of Plato's dialogues, such as Cratylus, Ion, Gorgias, Lesser Hippias, and Republic, along with Aristotle's Poetics, Rhetoric, and On Sophistical Refutations.

In his dialogues ( e. g. Republic 399e, 592a ), Plato has Socrates utter, " by the dog " ( kai me ton kuna ), " by the dog of Egypt ", " by the dog, the god of the Egyptians " ( Gorgias, 482b ), for emphasis.

Although Plato does not have an explicit theory of natural law ( he almost never uses the phrase natural law except in Gorgias 484 and Timaeus 83e ), his concept of nature, according to John Wild, contains some of the elements found in many natural law theories.

In " Gorgias ," one of his Socratic Dialogues, Plato defines rhetoric as the persuasion of ignorant masses within the courts and assemblies.

Plato ( 427-347 BC ) famously outlined the differences between true and false rhetoric in a number of dialogues ; particularly the Gorgias and Phaedrus wherein Plato disputes the sophistic notion that the art of persuasion ( the sophists ' art which he calls " rhetoric "), can exist independent of the art of dialectic.

Famously Plato argued against sophist thinkers such as Gorgias of Leontini, who held the physical world cannot be experienced except through language, this meant that for Gorgias the question of truth was dependent on aesthetic preferences or functional consequences.

In the Gorgias, Plato ( c. 400 BC ) wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus.

He was supposed to judge the souls of easterners, Aeacus those of westerners, while Minos had the casting vote ( Plato, Gorgias 524A ).

His favourite style seems to have been dialogues, some of them being vehement attacks on his contemporaries, as on Alcibiades in the second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus and on Plato in his Satho.

The Apology of Plato unites him with Gorgias and Hippias as among those who were considered competent to instruct the youth in any city.

Thrasymachus ’ s views are restatements of a position which Plato discusses earlier on in his writings, in the Gorgias, through the mouthpiece of Callicles.

The Torah, and the study of ethics which forms a part of practical philosophy and is designated, by an expression borrowed from Plato (" Gorgias ," 464 ), as the " doctrine of the healing of souls ," are the guiding stars to this exalted plane ; but no scientific presentation of practical philosophy approaches in this regard the lofty heights of the Scriptures, wherein are clearly expressed the most sublime moral principles known to philosophers ( ib.

* Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus

Their influence was likewise longlasting ; Gorgias, a Sophist, argued in the style of the Eleatics in On Nature or What Is Not, and Plato acknowledged them in the Parmenides, the Sophist and the Statesman.

( As Sachs points out, this is indeed what Plato depicts Socrates doing in his Gorgias.

Among his writings and publications are these: Editions of the Alcestis of Euripides ( 1834 ), of the Antigone of Sophocles ( 1835 ), of the Prometheus of &# 198 ; schylus ( 1837 ), of the Electra of Sophocles ( 1837 ), and of the Gorgias of Plato ( 1843 ); an edition of Lieber's Civil liberty and Self Government, and:

Plato mentions Epicharmus in his dialogue Gorgias and in Theaetetus.

Plato made extensive use of this tone in his Gorgias, Euthydemus, Republic, and Laws, and it is thematic in Xenophon's Symposium and the fourth book of his Memorabilia.

Metrodorus also wrote Against the Euthyphro, and Against the Gorgias of Plato.

Some have argued that Gorgias may have been uncharacteristically portrayed by Plato, because "… Plato's Gorgias agrees to the binary opposition knowledge vs. opinion " ( 82 ).

The epideictic speech in praise of love which Agathon recites in the Symposium is full of beautiful but artificial rhetorical expressions, and has led some scholars to believe he may have been a student of Gorgias.

The English translation of the history of the “ Apostolische Kirche des Ostens ” by Wilhelm Baum and Dietmar Winkler has already been published by Routledge Curzon Press in London, and the English translation of Baum ’ s biography of the Christian queen Shirin of Persia (+ 628 ) was published by Gorgias Press in New Jersey, USA ( Shirin.

The dialogue begins just after Gorgias has given a speech.

Callicles says that Gorgias is a guest in his home, and has agreed to a private audience with Socrates and his friend Chaerephon.

Gorgias remarks that no one has asked him a new question in a long time, and when Socrates asks, assures him that he is just as capable of brevity as of long-windedness ( 449c ).

Gorgias has only one misgiving: he fears that the present company may have something better to do than listen to two men try to outdo each other in being wrong ( 458b-c ).

Antisthenes first learned rhetoric under Gorgias before becoming an ardent disciple of Socrates.

In his youth he fought at Tanagra ( 426 BCE ), and was a disciple first of Gorgias, and then of Socrates, at whose death he was present.

He was greatly influenced by his sophist teachers, Prodicus and Gorgias, and was also closely acquainted with Socrates.

Aristides is praised by Socrates in Plato's dialogues Gorgias and

In the Gorgias, Socrates argues that philosophy is an art, whereas rhetoric is merely a knack.

Socrates interrogates Gorgias in order to determine the true definition of rhetoric, framing his argument around the question format, " What is X?

Socrates discusses the morality of rhetoric with Gorgias, asking him if rhetoric was just.

Socrates catches the incongruity in Gorgias statements: " well, at the time you said that, I took it that oratory would never be an unjust thing, since it always makes its speeches about justice.

Socrates gets Gorgias to agree to his cross-examination style of conversation, asks him questions, and praises him for the brevity of his replies.

Gorgias admits under Socrates ' cross-examination that while rhetoricians give people the power of words, they are not instructors of morality.

Socrates gets Gorgias to agree that the rhetorician is actually more convincing in front of an ignorant audience than an expert, because mastery of the tools of persuasion gives a man more conviction than mere facts.

Socrates ends the dialogue by telling Callicles, Polus, and Gorgias a story that they will regard as a myth, but which he regards as true ( 523a ).

At the start of the Gorgias, Chaerephon and Socrates arrive late at an Athenian gathering for an evening of conversation with Gorgias, a famed Sophist.

Chaerephon then says that Gorgias is a friend of his and, with some coaching by Socrates, he serves satisfactorily as Gorgias ' initial interlocutor in the early part of the dialogue.

Some believe Meletus was motivated primarily by the reports that Socrates had embarrassed the poets in his denunciation of the poets as depicted in such dialogues as the Gorgias.