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Plato's Gorgias

In Our Time: Philosophy

CHAPTER

Socrates's Trial and Death

Socrates argues that rhetoric is a knack rather than an art. In socrates's view, rhetoric aims not at truth and instruction, but at pleasure. Socrates makes this distinction because it doesn't require knowledge of subject matter in order to be persuasive. And so just men like socrates get put to death.

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