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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: 'O Socrates, Gorgias is deceiving you, for my art is concerned with the
greatest good of men and not his.' And when I ask, Who are you? he will
reply, 'I am a physician.' What do you mean? I shall say. Do you mean
that your art produces the greatest good? 'Certainly,' he will answer,
'for is not health the greatest good? What greater good can men have,
Socrates?' And after him the trainer will come and say, 'I too, Socrates,
shall be greatly surprised if Gorgias can show more good of his art than I
can show of mine.' To him again I shall say, Who are you, honest friend,
and what is your business? 'I am a trainer,' he will reply, 'and my
business is to make men beautiful and strong in body.' When I have done
with the trainer, there arrives the money-maker, and he, as I expect, will
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