POLI 2P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Callicles, Tyrant
15 Nov 2015
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If you aren"t a ruler, life isn"t easy lots of reasons a ruler may decide to kill you (so: watch what you say) Main goal, after surviving: knowing what they ruler likes and dislikes. Persuasion aims not at righteousness or virtue, but at matching your advice to the desire of the ruler (highlight elements that relate to what they are ashamed of) pg. 334 on the stupid ruler; and on peaceful coexistence via advising on private interest . When you have stupid ruler who you cannot persuade otherwise then give advice to ensure ruler goes with horrible plan. Keep living, don"t get executed for bad plan. Han fei sounds something like polus and callicles. This is a middle dialogue of plato"s back to athens in 380 bce or so socrates in. Plato returns to the theme of sophistry (one of the imputations of socrates" conviction for.
