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What has become the traditional Anglophone view of Plato’s writing divides it up into three periods: “early,” “middle,” and “late.” “Early” usually means “Socratic,” i.e., closer to the thought of the historical Socrates; “middle” tends to mean “including reference to a theory of ‘separated’ Forms” (vel sim.); “late” means anything after that. (The “late” dialogues, on this traditional, Anglophone view, are a collection of dialogues that have rather little in common, except that the kind of philosophy they represent seems—to those who wish to see it that way—closer to what we moderns, or we modern Anglophones, call “philosophy.
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The present paper has already appeared, in a more primitive form, in Barbarić (2005, pp. 73–92); it is presented here with the permission of the publishers. The piece was, in part (as its title is meant to suggest), originally stimulated by Jerry’s Goodness and Justice—a book that changed my own thinking on Socratic/Platonic ethics when it first came out, and one to which I continually return. The present paper is dedicated to the author of Goodness and Justice (and of much good in the study of Greek philosophy) with gratitude and affection. The paper is the second in a series of three papers on the Gorgias, all of them sharing a virtually identical first section (“Background”), and an overlapping second (“The problem of the Gorgias”). The first paper in the series, “A problem in the Gorgias: how is punishment supposed to help with intellectual error?”, together with a small part of the third, has appeared in C. Bobonich and P. Destrée (2007, pp. 19–40), and the third, ‘The Moral Psychology of the Gorgias’, in M. Erler and L. Brisson (2007, pp. 90–101). The three papers are now consolidated as chapter 4 of Rowe (2007c).
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Rowe, C. (2011). The Good and the Just in Plato’s Gorgias . In: Anagnostopoulos, G. (eds) Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian Studies: Essays in Honor of Gerasimos Santas. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 117. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1730-5_9
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