Gorgias- Three interlocutors
- Gorgias: Most sorta pejorative depiction of sophistry--the ability to persuade whether or not you know what you're talking about. Reluctant to articulate what rhetoric is.
- Polus: Socrates claims that having the power that rhetoric bestows is bad if it is used unjustly. Doing unjust things damages the soul.
- Callicles: Appeals to the naturalness of the strong asserting power over the weak. Claims that morality is a self-interested invention of men rather than decreed by the gods.
Phaedrus- Socrates and Plato seemed to have problems with writing (although we know them through it)
- fixed (can't answer questions)
- fame-seeking
- is false memory
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