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A 9 page paper which discusses various
conditions related to the works of Plato as it involves different philosophical theories and
methods. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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reasoning. Through many different perspectives we are given just as many possibilities from which we can examine Plato/Socrates. In the following paper we examine the use of Platos style as
it involves methods of rhetoric. The paper then discusses a just state, Platos thought, and Plato/Socrates use of mythos and logos. It should also be noted that the information provided
may not answer the students questions directly, but provides information that will assist the student with their own perspectives. As such the information presented is tutorial. Dialectical Method
More often than not Socrates has been portrayed, through Platonic dialogues, as one who is a powerful opponent of the rhetorical method of persuasion. However, it has also bee noted
that in Phaedrus, Socrates argues that philosophical rhetoric be accepted and utilized. In understanding this it is important for the student to look at the Sophistical and Socratic styles of
rhetoric and then examine the dialectical method. In providing a brief understanding of the three we turn to the words of one who states that, "We can begin to
fathom this paradox by considering a recent reformulation of the relationship between philosophy and sophistry, Plato and rhetoric, found in Thomas Coles The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece.(21) While
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it both to discredit them and subjugate the masses,(22) Cole argues that
Plato, the reputed arch-enemy of rhetoric is, along with Aristotle, its co-inventor" (Given True.htm). It may well be that in doing this all one needs to do is take Plato
at his word when he presents "his vision of what rhetoric ought to be in opposition to what he claims it currently is in the hands of the sophists....Cole contends
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