Gorgias
Socrates corners three defenders of rhetoric in a row, ending with a Macedonian house where the loser of the argument turns out to have the strongest stomach for it.
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Socrates corners three defenders of rhetoric in a row, ending with a Macedonian house where the loser of the argument turns out to have the strongest stomach for it.
Two men lie down by a riverbank to read a speech about love, and Socrates ends up arguing that writing itself is a dangerous invention.
Plato has a mathematician build the entire universe out of triangles, a formless "receptacle," and a creator who acts purely because he is not jealous.
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