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39. Cf. Glaucon’s tentative argument presenting the Sophist theory, Rep. 358E ff., very similar to that of Hobbes. Cf. Barker’s (op. cit., pp. 27 ff.) excellent presentation of the rise of this theory and its causes.
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40. Cf. A. Dobbs, Philosophy and Popular Morals in Ancient Greece (1907), p. 48. For examples, cf. Hippias, cited below, n. 6, or Lycophron, opposed by Aristotle, cited below in Aristotle’s criticism of socialism (Pol. 1280b10-12).
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41. Rep. i, and the story of Gyges, Rep. ii.
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42. Gorg. 482E ff., though Callicles was hardly a Sophist.