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• Callicles

  Callicles (late 5th century BC) Callicles, although known only as a character in Plato 's Gorgias (the dramatic date of which is somewhere between 430 and 405 BC), was probably an actual historical person. Employing a distinction between nature (physis ) and convention ( nomos ), he argues eloquently that the naturally superior should seize both political power and a greater share of material goods: it is only a convention of the weak majority which labels such behaviour unjust. In privat...