Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        themes are introduced; the argument expands into a general view
 2  Gorg|     change with the stages of the argument. Socrates is deferential
 3  Gorg|      himself by Socrates, and the argument is transferred to the hands
 4  Gorg|    confuted he withdraws from the argument, and leaves Socrates to
 5  Gorg|        self- accusation. When the argument with him has fairly run
 6  Gorg|      intellectual interest in the argument. Like Anytus, again, he
 7  Gorg|           consequences of his own argument should be stated in plain
 8  Gorg|           induced to continue the argument by the authority of Gorgias.
 9  Gorg|           a recapitulation of the argument in a figure.~(2) Socrates
10  Gorg|         says, we will ‘resume the argument from the beginning.’~Socrates,
11  Gorg|          sort, but fears that the argument may be tedious to the company.
12  Gorg|    explained?~The fallacy of this argument is twofold; for in the first
13  Gorg|          is shown in bringing the argument to such a pass. Socrates
14  Gorg|           the other. In this very argument, what Polus only meant in
15  Gorg|         and they proceed with the argument. Pleasure and good are the
16  Gorg|       that he may get through the argument. Which of the arts then
17  Gorg|       likewise discernible in his argument with Callicles.~(2) Although
18  Gorg|           by reason only, yet the argument is often a sort of dialectical
19  Gorg|    figures of speech or chains of argument; and not less so in asking
20  Gorg|           to have the best of the argument; or to repeat the observation
21  Gorg|          himself. The form of the argument may be paradoxical; the
22  Gorg|    earnest. Finally, he drops the argument, and heedless any longer
23  Gorg|           adds a corollary to the argument:— ‘Would you punish your
24  Gorg|             in which the previous argument is recapitulated, and the
25  Gorg|        rather paltry image of the argument wandering about without
26  Gorg|   improved, from the Gorgias: the argument personified as veiling her
27  Gorg|         great criminals only. The argument of the dialogue is frequently
28  Gorg|       sake, but in order that the argument may proceed in such a manner
29  Gorg|          as I was saying that the argument may proceed consecutively,
30  Gorg|        are to blame. And the same argument holds good of rhetoric;
31  Gorg| exhibition, and if we proceed the argument may run on to a great length.
32  Gorg|    SOCRATES: And according to the argument the rhetorician must be
33  Gorg|          he, but you, brought the argument by your captious questions—(
34  Gorg|           manners in bringing the argument to such a pass.~SOCRATES:
35  Gorg|       have a real interest in the argument, or, to repeat my former
36  Gorg|           suppose, is the sort of argument with which you fancy that
37  Gorg|       respectability. And in this argument nearly every one, Athenian
38  Gorg|        saying, you have no better argument than numbers, let me have
39  Gorg|           the healing hand of the argument as to a physician without
40  Gorg|          And if he cuts, the same argument holds—there will be something
41  Gorg|         to be running riot in the argument. And now you are declaiming
42  Gorg|           you agree with me in an argument about any point, that point
43  Gorg|      appealing to custom when the argument is about nature, and to
44  Gorg|            and to nature when the argument is about custom?~CALLICLES:
45  Gorg|           this had to do with our argument.~SOCRATES: But why will
46  Gorg|       your way of approaching the argument; for what you say is what
47  Gorg|  introducing such topics into the argument?~SOCRATES: Well, my fine
48  Gorg|         shall we proceed with the argument?~CALLICLES: By all means. (
49  Gorg|           should like to hear the argument out.~CALLICLES: Yes, Gorgias,
50  Gorg|   allowable. But to return to our argument:—Does not a man cease from
51  Gorg|           shall soonest bring the argument to an end, and shall oblige
52  Gorg|   SOCRATES: And does not the same argument hold of the soul, my good
53  Gorg|         chastisement of which the argument speaks!~CALLICLES: I do
54  Gorg|       should not like to have the argument going about without a head (
55  Gorg|          I wish that you and your argument would rest, or that you
56  Gorg|     willing?—I want to finish the argument.~CALLICLES: Cannot you finish
57  Gorg|          the supposition that the argument ought to be completed; but
58  Gorg|      until you have completed the argument; and this appears to me
59  Gorg|        have liked to continue the argument with Callicles, and then
60  Gorg|          while I recapitulate the argument:—Is the pleasant the same
61  Gorg|         to a man of sense, as the argument shows: do you think that
62  Gorg|           and after death, as the argument shows. And never mind if
63  Gorg|            Let us, then, take the argument as our guide, which has