Gorgias by Plato Plato PAPERBACK 9780801485275

Gorgias\nby Plato Plato\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Plato Plato\nTitle: Gorgias\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy\nPublisher: MB - Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 1998\nISBN-13: 9780801485275\nISBN-10: 0801485274\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato''s Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a precise yet unusually readable translation of one of the great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric.\nThe Gorgias presents an intransigent argument that justice is superior to injustice\u2014to the extent that suffering an injustice is preferable to committing an unjust act. The dialogue cont.