Reception and legacy In antiquity Plato was one of Gorgias' greatest critics and a student of Socrates. Plato's dislike for sophistic doctrines is well known, and it is in his eponymous dialogue that both Gorgias himself as well as his rhetorical beliefs are ridiculed (McComiskey 17).
Reception and legacy In antiquity Plato was one of Gorgias' greatest critics and a student of Socrates Plato's dislike for sophistic doctrines is well known and it is in his eponymous dialogue that both Gorgias himself as well as his rhetorical beliefs are ridiculed (McComiskey 17).