Bearing the name of the great sophist from Leontini in Sicily, this work seeks to highlight the great philosopher's struggle against sophistry and its representatives.
A text of exceptional dynamism, with multifaceted philosophical perspectives and conflicting approaches, "Gorgias" permeates the entire sphere of ethics and problematic with clarity and, at times, an often recognizably cynical tone for the contemporary reader.
"The right of the stronger," the contrast between "law-nature," "rhetoric," "persuasion," "justice," "the good," "politics," "democracy," "tyranny," are some of the concepts intertwined in the whirlwind of a philosophical dispute between the Socratic supremacy of reason and the natural law perspective of Callicles, which recognizes justice on the side of unassailable power and supports the right of the strong individual to keep the weaker natures under their control.
