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Plato, Gorgias
the Gorgias
also: Gorgia, Gorgias, Plato's Gorgias
Plato's dialogue on rhetoric and justice, in which Socrates argues that it is better to suffer injustice than to do it, and that the unjust man, however powerful, is wretched. Cicero cites its exchange on Archelaus of Macedon to show Plato resting happiness in virtue alone.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §5.34 in the \textit{Gorgias} Socrates
Plato's dialogue Gorgias, in which Socrates holds that the unjust man cannot be happy. Cicero cites the passage where Socrates declines to call Archelaus of Macedon happy because he does not know whether he is just.