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The Role of Rhetoric in Philosophy
For Plato, rhetoric was a vice and those like Gorgius who taught it were teaching the skills of lying in return for money. But there's a rich tradition of philosophers and theologians who have attempted to make sense of it. How did the art of rhetoric develop? What part is it played in philosophy and literature? And does it still deserve the moral health warning applied so unambiguously by Plato? With me to discuss rhetoric is Angie Hobbes, lecture in philosophy at the University of Warwick,. Kerry Sullivan, senior lecturer in English at the Universityof Wales, Banger, and Thomas Healy, professor of Renaissance studies at Birkbeck College University of London.