Gorgias is the most combative of the dialogues. Socrates argues that rhetoric is flattery rather than an art, that the tyrant who does as he pleases is the least free of men, and — against Callicles, the most formidable opponent Plato ever wrote — that it is better to suffer injustice than to commit it.
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