Plato’s Gorgias: Speech, Soul and Politics

David Machek, Ph.D. (2015), University of Toronto, is a lecturer at the University of Berne and a research fellow at Charles University. He has recently published a monograph The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (2023). Vladimír Mikeš, Ph.D. (2009), Charles University in Prague, is a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of Philosophy). He has published and edited mainly on the Stoics and Plato, including Le paradoxe stoïcien: liberté de l’action déterminée (2016) and Plato’s Cratylus (2022).

“[This volume’s] greatest strength is the breadth of topics covered and the variety of methods employed by the contributors. There are studies on the moral value of rhetoric and Socratic philosophy; rhetorical aspects of Socratic philosophizing; the moral psychology implied in the Gorgias; the use of tragic material drawn from Euripides; and the significance of the dialogue’s concluding myth. The contributions consistently uphold high standards of scholarly engagement and argumentation.”-Andrew Beer, Christendom College, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2025.10.14