 In the dialogue named for his teacher, Callicles argues the position of an oligarchic amoralist, stating that it is natural and just for the strong to dominate the weak and that it is unfair for the weak to resist such oppression by establishing laws to limit the power of the strong.He asserts that the institutions and moral code of his time were not established by gods but instead by humans who naturally were looking after their own interests.Despite the scant surviving sources for his thought, he served as influential to modern political philosophers, notably including Niccolò Machiavelli and Friedrich Nietzsche.