Briefly explain Plato's distinction between a true art (techne) and a sham art in Gorgias. Provide an example of a true art and its sham or counterfeit from the dialogue to illustrate your answer.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Techne is an art, discipline or skill that produced a socially useful outcome. Sham art didn't actually produced a useful outcome. For example, when people are sick they eat chicken noodle soup in order to feel better (sham art) but, in reality they need to go to the doctor and get prescribed medicine to actually physically feel better (techne).
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