HUM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Callicles
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Polus: gorgias is too polite, he shouldn"t agree to that defending that a tyrant can benefit from injustice. Callicles: athenian student of rhetoric accuses of gorgias and polus of being too nice. Logical succession: each new speaker stands on the former speaker and incorporates a more extreme stance. Historical succession: plato uses this to portray the progression of. Callicles testament of what happens to rhetoric outside of classroom, uses rhetoric as a mean for personal gain and benefit. Rhetoric not a benefit (socrates claims since rhetoric does not benefit practitioner, it is not good) Justice is a good: people who thinks rhetoric is good has wrong interest. Since rhetoric does not aim at the good, rather it is an intuition, a knack. The two arguments form to the good. Knowledge and morality are united by the concept of good. e. g moral goodness, nobody will knowingly do evil. Socrates explained rhetoric using medical context e. g medicine, body, soul.
