Callicles Gorgias

Rebecca L. Hunt Stickiest Point 1 1. THE CLAIM The man wholl get laid correctly ought to allow his consume cravings to get as large as possible and not restrain them. Callicles, Gorgias 491e-492a. 2. CALLICLES ARGUMENT Callicles claims that genius should fill his appetite as some(prenominal) as possible. Socrates view on a quick life requires self mastery which means that your appetites and emotions are controlled and you mind manifests pronounce. Also, Socrates perfect happy person would not do what is morally wrong.Callicles argues that if you live a life like Socrates wants, you are living like a body or a stone. Callicles believes that living pleasantly consists in this having as much as possible flow in (494b). To truly be happy, one needs to be endlessly weft his appetite to the maximum capacity. This is not possible for many. The people who cannot fulfill their appetites are apparently embarrassed and their deliver lack of courage leads them to praise self-control and justice (492b).According to Callicles, the reigns created by the easy enslave the more naturally gifted men. For the ones born into power, Callicles believes that they should defiantly tonus shameful that they let the talk of the people and the laws that rule them stop him from filling his appetite. 3. CRITICISM Callicles is wrong to think that one should fill his appetite constantly and to the fullest. This may seem like a pleasant life provided it is defiantly not a fulfilling one.You need more goals and ambitions that are not just centered on what you want. . One could argue that everybody does not go for appetites that are bad and selfish, but Callicles is defiantly referring to the self-indulgent ones. Callicles theory is same to Darwins survival of the fittest. Both believe that the strongest creatures will rule and strickle over the weaker ones Callicles is also wrong in saying that the strong should do whatever they feel and the weak need to quit holding them cov er version with rules.He believes that the weak create these rules because they are jealous and embarrassed at their own incompetence. It is not that the weak are jealous they just want order in their cities. If the strong had the ability to do whatever they feel so many people would suffer. Why would a city want a majority of its citizens feel inferior to just a handful of, what I would call, bullies? This includes people born into power. Just because they are rulers does not give them the objurgate to not have any kind of ethics or morals.They should in reality do the opposite of what Callicles says and set an example for their people and lead good, self-restraining lives. Smart people should have more of a right to rule the people, but only if they are trying to work for the greater good. They should not have ultimate power but I would rather a room full of smart, morally good men rule a city then selfish men constantly trying to invariably fulfill their own appetites.