Excerpt from Talks With Socrates About Life: Translations From the Gorgias and the Republic of Plato Our information concerning the Scope and nature of the art, one of whose most famous representatives we are about to meet, is chiefly derived from our knowledge of t hists, with whom, Plato tells cmmcommonmidenfified. The very closeness of the relationship between rhetorician and Sophist would seem, it is true, only to have-enhanced the contempt in which each held the other. Callicles, for instance, though figuring here as the host and admirer of Gor gias, speaks of the sophists as men of no account whatever; while the rhetorician Isocrates heaps upon them even fiercer invectives than those contained in the pages of Plato, their arch-enemy, as he is called by Grote. Nor were the Sophists more measured in the contempt they expressed for the art wh no cognizance either of theory or principle, itself to one narrow aim, that of persuasion. Nevertheless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.