Socrates And Gorgias

Part I of Essay
The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire enterprise since he sought genuine knowledge rather than mere victory over an opponent. Socrates employed the same logical trick, dev ....

Part II of Essay
.... In defining these three words, a connection can found which binds them together in a way that gives a separate meaning to the words, than their original meaning. Rhetoric is assumed to be the dealing of persuasive speech about politics and question of just and unjust actions. Right away this definition of rhetoric assumes a connection to democracy in the political sense. Politics deal with questions about just and unjust things. This is essentially what rhetoric is. In Gorgias PP 38-39 Gorgias speaks of the power of rhetoric in this way, "the ....