ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tyrant, Techne, Callicles
14 Aug 2020
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Seems to best understand what"s at stake (as opposed to the other two interlocutors. Says socrates is either messing with his audience, or else everything must be turned upside down. Socrates replies that with the athenian demos and its changing whims, socrates is in love with wisdom, sophia. Meaning of happiness, nature of proper ordering of politics, and so on. Callicles says he is saying what gorgias and polus are too afraid to say: Callicles praises unlimited appetite and the ability to sate those appetites. Callicles argues for the nobility of doing wrong, and disgracefulness of suffering it. Socrates: brings into view polus" view of public life and tyrant (the person who does whatever they want to do, and has the power to do so) The tyrant is enslaved to his need to gratify passions, but can never be fully satisfied, thus the tyrant is most governed by fear of using this power.
