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Carol Atack, "Plato: A Civic Life" (Reaktion, 2025)

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What did Plato think of sophists and rhetoric?

Morteza probes Plato's critique of sophists; Carol explains his worry that rhetoric prioritized persuasion over truth and its political effects in democratic Athens.

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