by Plato · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081207257
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«Gorgias» is Plato's philosophical dialogue, published by GF Flammarion in paperback (382 pages, in French).
The dialogue contrasts Socrates with the sophist Gorgias and his disciples on the value of rhetoric: oratory flatters and persuades without knowledge, against a just life and care of the self. Plato attacks Athenian democracy, dominated by the crowd, illusion and seduction, and proposes an ethical politics of self-governance.
French edition with introduction and translation by Monique Canto-Sperber; revised and expanded edition.
For philosophy students and readers of classics interested in rhetoric, political ethics and Athenian democracy.
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the collection of philosophical theories that would later become known as Platonism.
