- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Callicles’s major objection to philosophy is that it makes a person unsuited to public life. In other words, if someone spends all their time thinking about life, then they are ill-equipped to actually participate in it. Callicles even suggests that if Socrates were to be hauled off to prison on false charges, he would be helpless to speak in his own defense, having presumably failed to master the skill of persuasive speech. This is ironic, because Plato’s readers would have known that Socrates was put on trial for alleged impiety in 399 B.C.E. and did speak in his own defense…