Socrates vs. Callicles on Logos and Life

Abstract

Callicles has been portrayed as an immoralist or hedonist. But his basic stance is hostility to Socratic logos. The aim of my paper is (a) to analyse and identify such a basic stance of Callicles, and (b) to show that the issue between Socrates and Callicles is over the possibility of Socratic elenchus, namely, the philosophy itself, and finally, based on these examinations, (c) to show that logos settles our lives not only for the reason that logos is a grasp of our lives but that logos arranges and supports our lives.