3-2A. The Defense of Philosophy Against the Charge of Tyranny in the Gorgias; an Introduction to the Gorgias and Callicles’ Radical Antinomianism

the perfect moment of “Platonic political philosophy”: the moment when the philosopher is both forced to become political as a matter of self-defense, and the moment when, in the Straussian sense now, philosophy becomes “political,” when it begins to put on a mask and to become a rhetorical project of apologetics intended to portray the philosopher as a man of “justice” and a “good citizen.”