01631cam a22003493u 4500 1673 UtSlPG 20260610133048.0 m cr n 260607r1999||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 B PA Plato, 428? BCE-348? BCE Lesser Hippias Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1999 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias_Minor Socrates Release date is 1999-03-01 Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger "Lesser Hippias" by Plato and Benjamin Jowett is a dialogue thought to be one of Plato's early works. Socrates debates the sophist Hippias about Homer's heroes and the nature of lying. Through provocative arguments, Socrates challenges conventional morality by suggesting that deliberate wrongdoing is superior to unintentional error. He claims that skilled liars who knowingly deceive are better than those who lie unknowingly, using this reasoning to reinterpret the characters of Achilles and Odysseus in unexpected ways. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Classical literature Philosophy, Ancient Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1673 43788 43788