Callicles
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Callicles is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Gorgias," known for defending a philosophy of natural justice that glorifies power and self-interest over conventional morality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Callicles canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1743973 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Callicles Context triple: [Gorgias, mainCharacter, Callicles]
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A.
Thrasymachus
Thrasymachus is a Sophist and rhetorician in Plato’s Republic who famously argues that justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger.
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Gorgias
Gorgias was a pre-Socratic Greek sophist and rhetorician renowned for his skillful, ornamental style of speech and his skeptical, paradoxical philosophical arguments.
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Gorgias
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that examines the nature of rhetoric, justice, and the good life through a debate between Socrates and the sophist Gorgias.
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Glaucon
Glaucon is a prominent interlocutor in Plato’s Republic, known for challenging Socrates on the nature of justice and the value of living a just life.
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E.
Philocrates
Philocrates is the purported recipient and addressee of the ancient Jewish-Hellenistic work known as the Letter of Aristeas.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Callicles Target entity description: Callicles is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Gorgias," known for defending a philosophy of natural justice that glorifies power and self-interest over conventional morality.
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A.
Thrasymachus
Thrasymachus is a Sophist and rhetorician in Plato’s Republic who famously argues that justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger.
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B.
Gorgias
Gorgias was a pre-Socratic Greek sophist and rhetorician renowned for his skillful, ornamental style of speech and his skeptical, paradoxical philosophical arguments.
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C.
Gorgias
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that examines the nature of rhetoric, justice, and the good life through a debate between Socrates and the sophist Gorgias.
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D.
Glaucon
Glaucon is a prominent interlocutor in Plato’s Republic, known for challenging Socrates on the nature of justice and the value of living a just life.
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E.
Philocrates
Philocrates is the purported recipient and addressee of the ancient Jewish-Hellenistic work known as the Letter of Aristeas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek literary character
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fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsAlongside |
Gorgias
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Polus ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Gorgias ⓘ |
| arguesThat |
laws and conventions are made by the weak to restrain the strong
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natural justice allows the superior to rule and take more ⓘ the life of the undisciplined pleasure-seeker is preferable to the philosophic life ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
natural right of the stronger
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physis versus nomos ⓘ pleasure and desire without strict self-restraint ⓘ |
| createdBy | Plato ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Socratic concern with justice and moderation
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philosophy as suitable only for youth ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Classical Athens ⓘ |
| dialogueLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| dialogueSection | appears in the later part of Plato’s Gorgias ⓘ |
| discussesTopic |
justice
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law and convention ⓘ pleasure ⓘ power ⓘ |
| ethicalStance |
endorses unrestrained satisfaction of strong desires for the superior man
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rejects the idea that suffering injustice is worse than committing it ⓘ |
| literaryRole | interlocutor of Socrates ⓘ |
| moralView |
glorifies power and self-interest
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rejects egalitarian justice as contrary to nature ⓘ |
| opposesViewOf | Socrates ⓘ |
| philosophicalFunction |
foil to Socratic ethics
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representative of radical immoralism in Platonic dialogues ⓘ |
| philosophicalPosition |
advocate of the superiority of the strong over the weak
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critic of conventional morality ⓘ defender of natural justice ⓘ proponent of hedonism oriented toward power and dominance ⓘ |
| textualStatus | character whose historical existence is uncertain ⓘ |
| workGenre | Socratic dialogue ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Callicles Description of subject: Callicles is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Gorgias," known for defending a philosophy of natural justice that glorifies power and self-interest over conventional morality.
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