Fresh from a display of learning, the sophist Hippias is drawn by Socrates into comparing Achilles and Odysseus and from there into a puzzle: is the man who does wrong willingly better than the man who does it unwillingly? Jowett’s translation comes with his appendix on which dialogues attributed to Plato are genuine.
A short, teasing dialogue that leaves its paradox deliberately unresolved, ideal for a first taste of Socratic method. Download the free EPUB.