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Plato's Gorgias

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What to Godjus Is Rhetoric For?

The work opens with socrates at the house of calicles, where he wants to talk to gous and ask him about rhetoric. What to godjus is rhetoric for? Well, godias flounders around there here. And what emerges as the discussion goes on is that whether or not its subject matter is justice, it's used by people like gorgias, for the acquisition of power by the speaker. I e e questions about right and wrong and justice. Those are the sorts of things that were deliberated in the council and the assembly. So it might seem at that point that rhetorick is for the purposes of justice. But gorgas is really hard to

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