Callicles proposes that they shall go with him to his own house, where Gorgias is staying. |
Gorgias even boasted that a master rhetorician unqualified in medicine could get himself elected as surgeon general over a qualified doctor who is not rhetorically gifted. |
He may be regarded as standing in the same relation to Gorgias as Hippocrates in the Protagoras to the other great Sophist. |
The argument, as in the Phaedo and Gorgias, is supplemented by the vision of a future life. |
Socrates and Plato were deeply interested in the ideas of sophists such as Protagoras and Gorgias because their ideas were profound. |
Yes, Socrates had met him, but he has a bad memory, and has forgotten what Gorgias said. |