Callicles: Sophist, late 5th century BC. He argued that the right was established in orderto defend the weak against the strong. This corresponds to a subjective conception of law. Callicles is known only from Plato's Gorgias. (See Der Kleine Pauly, Lexikon der Antike, Munich 1979). See also right right, values, norms._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. |