Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Gorgias
Plato · 1998
82/100
👍 Worth It
Plato's Gorgias is one of the foundational texts in Western moral philosophy — the place where Socrates makes his most forceful case that it is always worse to do injustice than to suffer it, and where rhetoric gets its most searching critique. Zeyl's Hackett translation is the right edition for serious readers, with an introduction described as the best brief discussion of the dialogue available. Dense, demanding, and absolutely worth the effort for anyone ready to engage with it.
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