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Gorgias
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bookshelves: antiquity-greece, author-classical, non-fiction, spirituality-philosophy, read-in-2018
Mar 10, 2018
bookshelves: antiquity-greece, author-classical, non-fiction, spirituality-philosophy, read-in-2018
Read 2 times. Last read March 3, 2018 to April 18, 2018.
From the Introduction by Chris Emlyn-Jones:
p. xxvii - "For Plato's Socrates, oratory is not an art, since, by his own admission, Gorgias does not aim to produce knowledge of right and wrong, but only to persuade - to produce conviction. Instead of aiming at making people better (he cannot, because his art does not include knowledge of right and wrong), he panders to their desires, like a confectioner tempting children. If you engage in pandering you do not have to know what people really need; all you require is experience of what will satisfy them."
now don't that sound terrifyingly familiar?!
p. xxvii - "For Plato's Socrates, oratory is not an art, since, by his own admission, Gorgias does not aim to produce knowledge of right and wrong, but only to persuade - to produce conviction. Instead of aiming at making people better (he cannot, because his art does not include knowledge of right and wrong), he panders to their desires, like a confectioner tempting children. If you engage in pandering you do not have to know what people really need; all you require is experience of what will satisfy them."
now don't that sound terrifyingly familiar?!
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
February 22, 2018
– Shelved as:
to-read
February 22, 2018
– Shelved
February 22, 2018
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antiquity-greece
February 22, 2018
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author-classical
February 22, 2018
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non-fiction
February 22, 2018
– Shelved as:
spirituality-philosophy
March 3, 2018
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Started Reading
April 18, 2018
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read-in-2018
April 18, 2018
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Finished Reading
