The twofold requirements of truth and justice in the Gorgias

This paper examines Plato’s views about the unity of argument and drama, and asks why Plato never made his views on this unity fully explicit. Taking the Gorgias as a case study it is argued that unity rests on the conception of refutative dialectic as justice and on the principle of self-consisten...

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Main Author: François Renaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Coimbra University Press 2017-07-01
Series:Plato
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Online Access:https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/4429