Socrates the politician. A comment to Gorgias 521d
Abstract
The present article argues that in Gorgias 521d, Socrates attributes to himself a genuine form of political knowledge. To this end, the paper addresses the problems raised in recent scholarship concerning the apparent incompatibility of such an attribution with (1) Socrates’ explicit recognition in the Gorgias of not possessing knowledge of what is just, and (2) the apparent inadequacy of the activity he undertakes to count, under the criteria he himself establishes in the Gorgias, as truly political. The article addresses these difficulties by analysing the nature that Socrates attributes to his knowledge in this work and the effects that his dialogical activity has over Callicles. In so doing, it clarifies in what sense Socrates is presented in the Gorgias as the true politician.
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