Power, Getting What You Want, and Happiness: Gorgias 466A4-472D7

Interpreters of Socrates’ argument at Gorgias 466A4-468E5 that rhetoricians and tyrants have little power because they do almost nothing they want tend either to think the argument invalid, or that Socrates relies upon peculiar uses of the terms ‘power’ and ‘want.’ By examining this passage within i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ian Campbell
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2017-11-01
Series:Revista de Filosofia Antiga
Online Access:https://www.revistas.usp.br/filosofiaantiga/article/view/116679