Summary

This works examines the most crucial dialogue in Plato's Gorgias, where Socrate confronts Callicles. The assumption is that this dialogue is fundamental in Platonic philosophy, which is considered, in turn, a matrix in the philo-sophical project of Metaphysics. Such a view is conceived in Gorgias as a net of power and knowledge interrelations, established from a radical reflection about death as a basis for life and truth. This analysis intends to validate such hypothesis.