Analysis Of Plato's The Gorgias

A simple saying, an illusive leading yet an endless debating.

It has been and forever is, the strong versus the weak, right versus wrong. And justice is lost in-between whether based on the individualistic definition and sense of justice or the dislikes of what justice may bring upon the individual. Plato has refuted Callicles ' own definition of the statement of the stronger should rule in that context, based on what Callicles has provided him with what he meant by the might.

As for the argument in The Gorgias, Plato was successful in refuting

Callicles and that 's what I am going to show in the first half of this essay.

But changing the definition of the might could change the refuting

Even the masses of people together, they do realize no matter how many or how strong they 're, there 're stronger masses than them. But Plato didn 't point that out. Despite the fact he used what Callicles said to prove his point, and despite his agreement on might being wiser is a common ground between him and Callicles. Because according to Plato those who seek knowledge and obtain some will always be good since knowledge is the true good. In a perfect world what he said is true But in a human world it 's not. Therefore Plato didn 't point out how people created morals the same way Callicles did. As for Plato goodness is there exist by itself. Callicles was right also about those who are stronger, superior and seek pleasurable life, they are highly likely to rule. But those who seek knowledge and goodness are highly unlikely to rule. For example that 's why

Karl Marx didn 't rule nor sought one, but someone like Stalin did rule.

Yet the above doesn 't indicate that those who seek rule are evil and those who seek knowledge are good. As there are many just good rulers and many evil unjust seeker of

It 's also about intellectual strength, the ones who can convince people, the ones who can tackle people emotionally to make them agree. Might makes right is not only attributed to the above. it 's also and more effective if it 's a godly religion, laws and doctrines, nationalism, patriotism, tribalism etc, . For instance religion and nationalism is the key that politicians use to justify and to convince people to agree about whatever they do.

It 's certainly true that those who seek power are the superior and courageous ones but for sure not the better ones. And it 's highly likely they will end up evil and abuse that power. Also it 's true that those who are inferior in seeking power, who are not willing to seek ultimate pleasurable living, do make rules laws and regulations to preserve their rights to live. For if they don 't make rules and laws to ensure justice they will be left behind and at the end the stronger will survive.

But as for all that above is true and real, it 's not a defending nor an explanation why, it 's only the reality of the animalistic part of the

human