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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gorgias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gorgias is also known for contributing to the diffusion of the Attic dialect as the language of literary prose.
		Gorgias explains that, by nature, the weak are ruled by the strong, and, since the gods are stronger than humans in all respects, Helen should be freed from her undesirable reputation.
		Gorgias (483-375 B.C.E) Gorgias was a Sicilian philosopher, orator, and rhetorician.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gorgias (3690 words)

	Gorgias [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Gorgias argues that Helen succumbed either to (a) physical force (Paris' abduction), (b) love (eros), or (c) verbal persuasion (logos), and in any instance, she cannot be blamed for her actions.
		In the dialogue Gorgias, Plato (through his mentor Socrates) expresses his contempt for sophistical rhetoric; all rhetoric is "a phantom of a branch of statesmanship (463d)...a kind of flattery...that is contemptible," because its aim is simply pleasure rather than the welfare of the public.
		Gorgias is portrayed as a man with an ambivalent attitude towards truth, a relativist, who boldly asserts that it does not matter if one truly has knowledge of any given subject, only that he is perceived by others to have knowledge, and that "[r]hetoric is the only area of expertise you need to learn.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/g/gorgias.htm (2325 words)

	SparkNotes: Gorgias: 447a–453a
		When Gorgias first replies that rhetoric is a science of words, Socrates points out that it is not (for example) a science of words about health.
		Unable to elude vagueness, Gorgias replies that rhetoric focuses on "the greatest and noblest of human affairs" and he immediately meets with opposition in the form of Socrates's claim that many believe their own skills and trade to be the most noble of all practices.
		This lack exemplifies a general problem with rhetoric, a conflict that is itself Socrates's target in his debunking of this practice: it is the skill of oration, rather than the accumulation of knowledge.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/gorgias/section1.html (1047 words)

	Gorgias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gorgias (483-376 BC) was a Sophist from Leontini, Sicily who first traveled to Athens in 427 as an ambassador from his city.
		Gorgias employs Zeno of Elea's ideas about multiplicity and motion to support his first premise.
		Many of Gorgias' writings are unrecovered and only excerpts exist in paraphrases such as Plato's dialogue, "Gorgias" and the "Sextus Empiricus."Gorgias was a student of Empedocles, and also used Zeno of Elea's works to support his philosophies.
	personal.ecu.edu /mccartyr/ancient/athens/Gorgias.htm (393 words)

	American Rhetoric: Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments
		And now let us have from you, Gorgias, the truth about rhetoric: which you would admit (would you not?) to be one of those arts which act always and fulfil all their ends through the medium of words?
		And therefore he is the person who ought to be held in detestation, banished, and put to death, and not his instructor.
		Let me tell you then, Gorgias, what surprises me in your words; though I dare say that you may be right, and I may have understood your meaning.
	www.americanrhetoric.com /platoonrhetoric.htm (2537 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Gorgias by Plato
		O Chaerephon, there are many arts among mankind which are experimental, and have their origin in experience, for experience makes the days of men to proceed according to art, and inexperience according to chance, and different persons in different ways are proficient in different arts, and the best persons in the best arts.
		Now I think, Gorgias, that you have very accurately explained what you conceive to be the art of rhetoric; and you mean to say, if I am not mistaken, that rhetoric is the artificer of persuasion, having this and no other business, and that this is her crown and end.
		Then hear me, Gorgias, for I am quite sure that if there ever was a man who-entered on the discussion of a matter from a pure love of knowing the truth, I am such a one, and I should say the same of you.
	classics.mit.edu /Plato/gorgias.html (8078 words)

	Plato's Gorgias
		Gorgias is made to see the necessity of a further limitation, and he now defines rhetoric as the art of persuading in the law courts, and in the assembly, about the just and unjust.
		Gorgias illustrates the nature of rhetoric by adducing the example of Themistocles, who persuaded the Athenians to build their docks and walls, and of Pericles, whom Socrates himself has heard speaking about the middle wall of the Piraeus.
		Gorgias is compelled to admit that if he did not know them previously he must learn them from his teacher as a part of the art of rhetoric.
	www.ancienttexts.org /library/greek/plato/gorgias.html (21766 words)

	Plato's Gorgias
		In Plato's Gorgias, Gorgias of Leontini, a famous teacher of rhetoric, has come to Athens to recruit students, promising to teach them how to become leaders in politics and business.
		A group has gathered at Callicles' house to hear Gorgias demonstrate the power of his art.
		This dialogue blends comic and serious discussion of the best human life, providing a penetrating examination of ethics, the foundations of knowledge, and the nature of the good.
	www.pdcnet.org /agorapg.html (230 words)

	Gorgias (Rhetoric) Society, English Dept., UTA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Every month the Gorgias Society hosts functions designed to provide occasions for conversation and a discusson of members' works; to provide reading lists of relevant materials; and to sponsor guest lectures by scholars in the the field of rhetoric and composition.
		We are again in the Spring co-sponsoring the Gorgias Society National Conference (formerly known as the Arlington Humanities Colloquium).
		There is a ten dollar membership fee, which entitles you to all the benefits that membership in Gorgias has to offer.
	www.uta.edu /gorgias (334 words)

	SparkNotes: Gorgias: Suggestions for Further Reading
		Dodds, E.R. Plato's Gorgias: A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary.
		The Gorgias of Plato: Translated with Introduction, Notes, and an interpretive essay.
		Thompson, W.H. The Gorgias of Plato: with English Notes, introduction, and appendix.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/gorgias/bibliography.html (93 words)

	GORGIAS by Plato, Part 08
		Capital, excellent; go on as you have begun, and have no shame; I, too, must disencumber myself of shame: and first, will you tell me whether you include itching and scratching, provided you have enough of them and pass your life in scratching, in your notion of happiness?
		That was the reason, Callicles, why I scared Polus and Gorgias, until they were too modest to say what they thought; but you will not be too modest and will not be scared, for you are a brave man. And now, answer my question.
		I answer, that even the scratcher would live pleasantly.
	www.greekmythology.com /Books/Classic/plato/gorgias_08.html (1873 words)

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	Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Gorgias is forced by successive challenges to move from the view that rhetoric is concerned with words to the view that its activity and effectiveness happen only in and through words (unlike the manual arts) to the view that its object is the greatest of human concerns, namely freedom.
		Even in the Gorgias, as we have seen, there is a distinction between rhetoric that instills belief, and rhetoric that instills knowledge, and later in the dialogue a form of noble rhetoric is mentioned, though no examples of its practitioners can be found (503a-b).
		The Gorgias' notion that the struggle between (popular) rhetoric and philosophy — or as we might say, unphilosophical and philosophical rhetoric — is one between comprehensive outlooks is clear from the Phaedrus as well.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/plato-rhetoric (12966 words)

	Gorgias von Leontinoi
		Der griechische Philosoph Gorgias aus Leontinoi in Sizilien ist einer der Hauptvertreter der griechischen Sophistik.
		Gorgias erklärte in seinem Werk "Über das Nichtseiende oder über die Natur", dass "überhaupt nichts ist", nicht einmal die Natur.
		Platon hat einen seiner Dialoge nach Gorgias benannt.
	www.philosophenlexikon.de /gorgias.htm (121 words)

	Gorgias of Leontini
		Gorgias was from Leontini, a city state on the east coast of Sicily, just north of Syracuse, the putative home of Greek rhetoric.
		Gorgias figures as the senior practitioner of rhetoric whom Socrates opposes in Plato's Gorgias.
		"Gorgias' Encomium to Helen and the Defense of Rhetoric." Rhetorica 1 (1983): 1-16.
	www.wfu.edu /~zulick/300/gorgias/gorgiasfiles.html (802 words)

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		Yes, Gorgias, but I must complain of the habitual trifling of Socrates; he is always arguing about little and unworthy questions.
		Let me now remind you of what I was saying to Gorgias and Polus; I was saying, as you will not have forgotten, that there were some processes which aim only at pleasure, and know nothing of a better and worse, and there are other processes which know good and evil.
		I too, Gorgias, should have liked to continue the argument with Callicles, and then I might have given him an "Amphion" in return for his "Zethus"; but since you, Callicles, are unwilling to continue, I hope that you will listen, and interrupt me if I seem to you to be in error.
	graduate.gradsch.uga.edu /archive/Plato/Gorgias.txt (17710 words)

	gorgias
		Gorgias pertenece a la primera generación de sofistas.
		Gran viajero, y supuesto alumno de Empédocles (también siciliano) Gorgias trabajó en muchas ciudades griegas, hasta que se instala en Atenas en el 427 como jefe de una embajada de su ciudad, cuando tenía ya 60 años.
		C.) recoge en un escrito las tres tesis de Gorgias que desafiaban las tesis eleatas de la existencia de un ser único e inmutable.
	www.cibernous.com /autores/sofistas/teoria/gorgias.html (508 words)

	Gorgias - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		In 1 Macc 4:1-24 is recorded a night attack by Gorgias with 5,000 foot and 1,000 horse upon the camp of Judas Maccabeus in the neighborhood of Emmaus, in which Judas was completely victorious.
		The victory was all the more striking as the force of Judas was considerably smaller in number and had "not armor nor swords to their minds" (1 Macc 4:6).
		The doings of Gorgias in 2 Macc are recorded with some confusion.
	studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T3889 (248 words)

	Gorgias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		And the same, Gorgias, is true of the other arts : — all of them treat of discourse concerning the subjects with which they severally have to do.
		Now I think, Gorgias, that you have very accurately explained what you conceive to be the art of rhetoric ; and you mean to say, if I am not mistaken, that rhetoric is the artificer of persuasion, having this and no other business, and that this is her crown and end.
		For whether or no this is that art of rhetoric which Gorgias practises I really cannot tell : — from what he was just now saying, nothing appeared of what he thought of his art, but the rhetoric which I mean is a part of a not very creditable whole.
	www.ac-nice.fr /philo/textes/Plato-Works/12-Gorgias.htm (7032 words)

	Gorgias
		Gorgias Tutorial Most of the works of Socrates do not appeal to my interest, but Gorgias was different.
		Gorgias, being older and more wise does not get as worked up as his younger peers.
		The story begins with Gorgias and Socrates discussing what oratory is. Gorgias is very well-known and respected for his skills.
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		And the same, Gorgias, is true of the other arts: -- all of them treat of discourse concerning the subjects with which they severally have to do.
		Then hear me, Gorgias, for I am quite sure that if there ever was a man who -- entered on the discussion of a matter from a pure love of knowing the truth, I am such a one, and I should say the same of you.
		For whether or no this is that art of rhetoric which Gorgias practises I really cannot tell: -- from what he was just now saying, nothing appeared of what he thought of his art, but the rhetoric which I mean is a part of a not very creditable whole.
	www.ilt.columbia.edu /publications/Projects/digitexts/plato/gorgias/gorgias.html (16264 words)

	Amazon.com: Gorgias (Agora Paperback Editions): Books: Plato,James H. Nichols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality.
		The famed orator Gorgias is in town, and Socrates is most anxious to have a discussion with him.
		When Gorgias enters the discussion, Socrates treats him very well, as a respectable man with whom he disagrees, and Gorgias for his part is never flustered by Socrates' description of his art as a knack and as a form of pandering.
	www.amazon.com /Gorgias-Agora-Paperback-Editions-Plato/dp/0801485274 (1967 words)

	Gorgias. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		From his native city, Leontini, Sicily, he was sent as an ambassador to Athens, where he settled to teach and practice rhetoric.
		Gorgias pursued the negative implications of the Eleatic school and asserted: (1) Nothing exists; (2) If anything does exist, it cannot be known; (3) If it can be known, the knowledge of it cannot be communicated.
		Objective truth being thus impossible, there remains only the art of the Sophists, persuasion.
	www.bartleby.com /65/go/Gorgias.html (157 words)

	Gorgias Summary
		Although Gorgias made major original contributions in the fields of philosophy and rhetoric, he is probably best known as the antagonist of Socrates'; ideas in the Platonic dialogue titled Gorgias (circa 388 B.C.).
		Gorgias (in Greek Γοργία&sigmaf;, circa 483- 375 BC), Greek sophist, philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily.
		In 427, he was sent to Athens by his fellow-citizens at the head of an embassy to ask for Athenian protection against t...
	www.bookrags.com /Gorgias (150 words)

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		Cal. Come into my house, then; for Gorgias is staying with me, and he shall exhibit to you.
		Cal. By the gods, Chaerephon, although I have been present at many discussions, I doubt whether I was ever so much delighted before, and therefore if you go on discoursing all day I shall be the better pleased.
		Cal. Yes, Gorgias, but I must complain of the habitual trifling of Socrates; he is always arguing about little and unworthy questions.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/plato-gorgias.txt (17645 words)

	Gorgias, part I
		Gorgias was a real person, a teacher of “oratory”. Oratory was very important in Athenian politics—you got things done by convincing the people in the assembly that this was to be done—and knowing how to speak was important for getting what you wanted in court since one didn’t have a lawyer.
		The Gorgias, probably another Socratic dialogue, has S. speaking with Gorgias, Polus and Callicles. Each has his own character. Callicles we will get to know better for next class. Gorgias is a distinguished person, and S. is very respectful of him. Polus is young, impetuous and wants to come to the help of Gorgias.
		· The definition we want here is that of “the orator”. Gorgias believes oratory is a craft, technê, something that involves the application of knowledge. Polus praises Gorgias’ craft, but praising is not the same as defining.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/ap85/173/GorgiasI.html (661 words)

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