In Plato’s Gorgias, there are many different ideas that Plato wants the reader to contemplate. This text is a study of virtue based on the evaluation of the power and influence rhetoric places on society. Rhetoric plays a larger role in this text than many of the other ideas explained, and the ideas that Plato explains to the readers are his own true thoughts, and are expanded explanations of the ideas that Socrates had taught him while growing up. Rhetoric in this text is looked as amoral lacking true knowledge and skill, for example, when discussed in class, a karate teacher’s student attacks another child with the skills his “master” taught him, who is to blame? The teacher or the student? A Rhetorician would answer the student, but another…show more content… Humans are more than likely to act on egocentrism when making decisions, but Socrates is clearly stating that all wrong doing comes from a place of ignorance therefore, no human willing does wrong to another, in fact it is said to be impossible. Thus, a person suffering from pain and sadness is not the evil lurking in the world, it is the ignorance that causes such pain. Another key idea made in Plato’s Gorgias text is the ideas of laws, and how the conceptualize the world, and who exactly benefits from them. Callicles then starts explaining that power is not a gift, it is in fact a consequence of strength and disrupts natural order, he then goes on to explain that laws are made for the weak. Counteracting that statement, Socrates goes on to explain that he believes the opposite, “And the regular and orderly states of the soul are called lawfulness and law, whereby men are similarly made-law abiding and orderly; and these states are justice and temperance. Do you agree or
