Dialogue

 1  Gorg|          noblest of experimental arts,’ etc., replies Polus, in
 2  Gorg|   medicine, and other particular arts, are also concerned with
 3  Gorg|          distinction between the arts which deal with words, and
 4  Gorg|         deal with words, and the arts which have to do with external
 5  Gorg|       and divides all productive arts into two classes: (1) arts
 6  Gorg|       arts into two classes: (1) arts which may be carried on
 7  Gorg|   carried on in silence; and (2) arts which have to do with words,
 8  Gorg|         as rhetoric. Even in the arts which are concerned with
 9  Gorg|          rhetoric from the other arts which have to do with words? ‘
10  Gorg|         would you rank them? The arts will come to you in a body,
11  Gorg|          because there are other arts which persuade, such as
12  Gorg|         the old confusion of the arts and the virtues;—nor can
13  Gorg|         appearance of them; real arts and sciences, and the simulations
14  Gorg|       the soul and body have two arts waiting upon them, first
15  Gorg|    Corresponding with these four arts or sciences there are four
16  Gorg|        hurt. And there are three arts which heal these evils—trading,
17  Gorg|     study pleasure only, and the arts which are concerned with
18  Gorg|       the argument. Which of the arts then are flatteries? Flute-playing,
19  Gorg|          who is not studying the arts which will preserve him
20  Gorg|      justice. But how many other arts are there which also save
21  Gorg|          any practiser of saving arts. But is not virtue something
22  Gorg|          two. The teacher of the arts takes money, but the teacher
23  Gorg|          illusive analogy of the arts and the virtues also continues.
24  Gorg|       the general analogy of the arts and the virtues, the analogy
25  Gorg|   precarious as pleasure.~b. The arts or sciences, when pursued
26  Gorg|  parodies of wise men, and their arts are the parodies of true
27  Gorg|         are the parodies of true arts and sciences. All that they
28  Gorg|        art of persuasion, of all arts the best, for to it all
29  Gorg| degradation of philosophy by the arts to the dishonoured maiden,
30  Gorg|          world begins again, and arts and laws are slowly and
31  Gorg|       Chaerephon, there are many arts among mankind which are
32  Gorg|          proficient in different arts, and the best persons in
33  Gorg|         best persons in the best arts. And our friend Gorgias
34  Gorg|       that it was the noblest of arts?~SOCRATES: Yes, indeed,
35  Gorg|    Gorgias, is true of the other arts:—all of them treat of discourse
36  Gorg|     discourse, and all the other arts treat of discourse, do you
37  Gorg|  discourse, do you not call them arts of rhetoric?~GORGIAS: Because,
38  Gorg|       the knowledge of the other arts has only to do with some
39  Gorg|       would allow that there are arts?~GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
40  Gorg|         Yes.~SOCRATES: As to the arts generally, they are for
41  Gorg|         statuary, and many other arts, the work may proceed in
42  Gorg|          in silence; and of such arts I suppose you would say
43  Gorg|    SOCRATES: But there are other arts which work wholly through
44  Gorg|     little, as, for example, the arts of arithmetic, of calculation,
45  Gorg|        mean to call any of these arts rhetoric; although the precise
46  Gorg|         rhetoric is one of those arts which works mainly by the
47  Gorg|       words, and there are other arts which also use words, tell
48  Gorg|        asks me about some of the arts which I was mentioning just
49  Gorg|       arithmetic is one of those arts which take effect through
50  Gorg|          That also is one of the arts which is concerned wholly
51  Gorg|         not?) to be one of those arts which act always and fulfil
52  Gorg|          persuasion, or do other arts have the same effect? I
53  Gorg|  SOCRATES: Again, if we take the arts of which we were just now
54  Gorg|          show that all the other arts of which we were just now
55  Gorg|       persuasion, but that other arts do the same, as in the case
56  Gorg|        her sway all the inferior arts. Let me offer you a striking
57  Gorg|        rhetoric to all the other arts; the rhetorician need not
58  Gorg|        to have learned the other arts, but the art of rhetoric
59  Gorg|        of medicine and the other arts; I mean to say, does he
60  Gorg|         body being two, have two arts corresponding to them: there
61  Gorg|        that there are these four arts, two attending on the body
62  Gorg|         same true of all similar arts, as, for example, the art
63  Gorg|        and to the study of those arts which secure us from danger
64  Gorg|      physician, and of the other arts of salvation, is ridiculous.
65  Gorg|    drinks on the body. All other arts which have to do with the
66  Gorg|      having no mind to use those arts and graces which you recommend,