2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Athenian statesman and general — the most brilliant and disastrous figure of his generation — who was Socrates's student/admirer, led Athens into the disastrous Sicilian Expedition, defected to Sparta, became a Persian ally, and returned to Athens before being murdered — making him for René Girard the supreme case of mimetic desire's destructiveness.
Athenian political figure and Socrates's most formidable opponent in Plato's Gorgias — arguing that the strong should rule the weak, that conventional justice is a slave morality invented by the weak to constrain the naturally superior — anticipating Nietzsche's master morality by 2,400 years.