HUM 1 Lecture 24: Lecture24
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Does not care what other people thinks, socrates praises call ciale sincerity, because callicles calls out on socrates for making gorgias and polus for admitting. Gorgias feels fear, gorgias portrayed as concerned with public thinks about him. Reluctant to provide view that is improbable to audience. Only cares if the argument is logically sound, willing to forge ahead. Socrates considers knowledge as single , pathway to knowledge is accessible, while gorgias thinks knowledge is not accessible. Each speaker shows different approaching in debating, however, no one questions the assumptions made fourth of socrates. *pictured a world where opinion trumps knowledge, because absolute knowledge is unattainable, plato inserts gorgias analogy of drug as a craft, made it fraudulent. As if learning righteousness makes you a right person , and learning carpentry makes you a carpenter. Gorgias does not question this point, but just accepts it.
