Abstract
Discussions about the content of Plato’s Gorgias mostly follow the
structure of this dialogue given by the change of the interlocutors. As plain as this
change is, as little does it correspond with the development of the subject. This
becomes obvious if we compare the division of the dialogue by the interlocutors
with the division of the leading questions. New themes do not start with a new
person, but only in the course of the conversation with Gorgias, Polos, and Callicles
respectively Socrates gets a more fundamental niveau for an old question
or introduces a new subject.