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Plato (428-347 BCE)

Gorgias

  • Three interlocutors
    • Gorgias: Most sorta pejorative depiction of sophistry--the ability to persuade whether or not you know what you're talking about. Reluctant to articulate what rhetoric is.
    • Polus: Socrates claims that having the power that rhetoric bestows is bad if it is used unjustly. Doing unjust things damages the soul.
    • Callicles: Appeals to the naturalness of the strong asserting power over the weak. Claims that morality is a self-interested invention of men rather than decreed by the gods.

Phaedrus

  • Socrates and Plato seemed to have problems with writing (although we know them through it)
    • fixed (can't answer questions)
    • fame-seeking
    • is false memory






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Rhetoric and Culture
ENG 552-001
MO 204
T 6:30–9:15

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