Calicles is an Athenian politician depicted in Plato's Gorgias who argues that conventional justice is a conspiracy of the weak against the naturally strong.
Calicles argues that natural justice gives the strong the right to take more than the weak; conventional morality and philosophy are tools the weak use to contain superior individuals — the most radical challenge to Socratic ethics in Plato's dialogues.
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