Dialogue

 1  Gorg|   despiser of mankind as he is of philosophy, and sees in the laws of
 2  Gorg|       principles to his practice. Philosophy and poetry alike supply
 3  Gorg|      Socrates. He must speak, for philosophy will not allow him to be
 4  Gorg|       Socrates are Alcibiades and philosophy. The peculiarity of Callicles
 5  Gorg|      repeating what his mistress, Philosophy, is saying to him, who unlike
 6  Gorg|           convinced, if you leave philosophy and pass on to the real
 7  Gorg|        business of life. A little philosophy is an excellent thing; too
 8  Gorg|      ridiculous when they take to philosophy: ‘Every man,’ as Euripides
 9  Gorg|        that in which he is best.’ Philosophy is graceful in youth, like
10  Gorg|     grown-up man lisps or studies philosophy, I should like to beat him.
11  Gorg|          the same caution against philosophy to Socrates, which Socrates
12  Gorg|           of Plato and of ancient philosophy generally. For Plato is
13  Gorg|           the twilight of ethical philosophy, but also the half of the
14  Gorg|   transcendental systems of moral philosophy, he recognizes the two elements
15  Gorg|          many dark places both of philosophy and theology.~THE MYTHS
16  Gorg| comparisons of the degradation of philosophy by the arts to the dishonoured
17  Gorg|           itself. The language of philosophy mingles with that of mythology;
18  Gorg|         advantages with a view to philosophy, gathering from every nature
19  Gorg|       monotonous. In theology and philosophy we necessarily include both ‘
20  Gorg|           son of Cleinias, and of philosophy; and you of the Athenian
21  Gorg|       want to silence me, silence philosophy, who is my love, for she
22  Gorg|      another thing to-morrow, but philosophy is always true. She is the
23  Gorg|      ascertain, if you will leave philosophy and go on to higher things:
24  Gorg|          on to higher things: for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in
25  Gorg|      accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.
26  Gorg|       parts, still, if he carries philosophy into later life, he is necessarily
27  Gorg|        appearance in the arena of philosophy. For, as Euripides says,~‘
28  Gorg|       principle is to unite them. Philosophy, as a part of education,
29  Gorg|         feeling about students of philosophy; when I see a youth thus
30  Gorg|   education, and him who neglects philosophy I regard as an inferior
31  Gorg|           will carry the study of philosophy too far. For suppose that
32  Gorg|        refute no more:~‘Learn the philosophy of business, and acquire
33  Gorg|           to which the pursuit of philosophy should be carried, and,
34  Gorg|         should pursue the life of philosophy;—and in what the latter