Comparing Plato's Dialogue, Gorgias, Socrates And Callicles

In Plato’s Dialogue, Gorgias , Socrates and Callicles find themselves in a deep disagreement about the best way to live. In the following paper, I shall reconstruct Callicles attempt to form a few cohesive claims, concerning a such topic, that are made on 482-495. To articulate a more a focused account of his ethical views. I will use concepts, distinctions, and theories from our readings.
According to Callicles, the guidelines of nature are superior to the law as they allow the better man to rise above the inferior. The law, made by the many and inferior, ensures that everyone receives an equal share. According to law, “…getting more than ones share is “shameful” and “unjust”…” The inferior feel it’s just that everyone receives an equal share, otherwise they would have a lesser share than the superior. Here, Callicles view is that the inferior’s fear drives them to repress the potential of the superior and that nature exhibits the proper guidelines: if a better man takes a greater share than the lesser man, it is just. Calicles’ view involves the Normative Ethical Theory, which is concerned with the right and wrong actions to conduct; to live by the …show more content…
These two things would be described as essential or perhaps pleasurable for a person and painful if insufficient. However, there also may be a deficiency in height or perhaps hair and depending on the person with the deficiency those traits may be pleasurable things. Those people, in particular, would not be in pain, but might be content with their supposed deficiency. Therefore, it would not be pleasurable, but in fact may be painful if those deficiencies were filled. So it would be logical that the people who are content with their deficiencies are feeling pleasure and not