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Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 1
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1 comment
I’ve read it, and my take is that Gorgias was an early postmodernist – the same sort of “nothing is real” subjectivist fluff, the “communication is impossible” stuff from the French pomos, the fast talk that doesn’t really mean anything, etc. This doesn’t give me a favorable opinion of Gorgias.
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