seyed jamal same; mohammad javad safian
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Winter and Spring 2018, , Pages 95-113
Abstract
Gorgias dialogue is one of the most important Plato's dialogue, because Plato challenges Socrates against of most of these important figures of his time.in this essay, we consider the third act of dispute between Socrates and Kallikles which is more than half of the dialogue. In this essay we try show ...
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Gorgias dialogue is one of the most important Plato's dialogue, because Plato challenges Socrates against of most of these important figures of his time.in this essay, we consider the third act of dispute between Socrates and Kallikles which is more than half of the dialogue. In this essay we try show that parts of Nietzsche’s critics are the same of Kallikles critics that are explained in raw and primitives form. Present essay tries to avoid spiteful views of Nietzsche’s opinion and show their approximate to Kallikles’s opinion. Center of this essay is the concept of power in the views of Kallikles and Nietzsche. We try with analysing of this central concept explain the views of Nietzsche and Kallikles in the case of truth, meaning of life and law. So the basic question about all parts of essay is: what is the relation between conceiving of Kallikles and Nietzsche in the case of power? If such a relation exists between a Sophist in the era of Western philosophy and the last philosopher of this tradition (Nietzsche), can there be a rift between the two?
