This is a two to three page essay. Essay Prompt – Last Bullet Point is the Question • Callicles’ objection against philosophy. • In Plato’s dialogue the Gorgias, the character Callicles raises the following objection to philosophy. • “For philosophy, you know, Socrates, is a charming thing, if a man has to do with it moderately in his younger days; but if he continues to spend his time on it too long, it is ruin to any man…For such people are shown to be ignorant of the laws of their city, and of the terms which have to be used in negotiating agreements with their fellows in private or in public affairs, and of human pleasures and desires; and, in short, to be utterly inexperienced.” • “When I see an elderly man still going on with philosophy and not getting rid of it, that is the gentleman, Socrates, whom I think in need of a whipping.” • How would Epictetus respond to this objection that the philosopher is “immature” and unworldly?