Plato: On Suffering And Justice

This paper consists of four parts. In the first part, I present a short recapitulation of what is established in the first part of Socrates discussion with Polus(474c - 476a), and I also offer an interpretation of Socrates’ argument (476a -479e) which concerns the defense of (1) and (2). In the second part, I offer an interpretation of the objections presented in Mackenzie’s article “A Pyrrhic Victory: Gorgias 474b-477a.” In part III, I give a response to the objections presented inII against Socrates, and introduce some of the possible implications regarding Socrates’ lack of specification of agency, and provide a different alternative as to why the issue might not be essential to refuting Socrates’ point (1), but I also consider reasons to explain why he chooses harm and not pain for arriving at Mackenzie’s premise “I. Therefore, it must be more shameful in respect of its harmfulness” (84).