Socratic Postscript on the Greek Studio Violence

Socrates: "You reproach me with being unable to defend myself...and assert that...I am at the mercy of anyone who chooses...to slap me on the face...

To be in such a position is the lowest form of disgrace, according to you...

I maintain, Callicles, that it is not being slapped on the face, undeservedly...that is the ultimate disgrace...

To inflict any wrong upon me and mine brings more harm and disgrace upon the wrong-doer than upon me who suffer the wrong".

From Plato, Gorgias, translated by Walter Hamilton, Penguin Classics, 1960, pp 118-119.

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