Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists [Paperback]

Marina McCoy explores Plato's treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists.In this book, Marina McCoy explores Platos treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists through a thematic treatment of six different Platonic dialogues, including Apology, Protagoras, Gorgias, Republic, Sophist, and Phaedras.In this book, Marina McCoy explores Platos treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists through a thematic treatment of six different Platonic dialogues, including Apology, Protagoras, Gorgias, Republic, Sophist, and Phaedras.In this book, Marina McCoy explores Platos treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists through a thematic treatment of six different Platonic dialogues, including Apology, Protagoras, Gorgias, Republic, Sophist, and Phaedras. She argues that Plato presents the philosopher and the sophist as difficult to distinguish, insofar as both use rhetoric as part of their arguments. Plato does not present philosophy as rhetoric-free, but rather shows that rhetoric is an integral part of the practice of philosophy.1. Introduction; 2. Elements of Gorgianic rhetoric and the forensic genre in Plato's Apology; 3. The rhetoric of socratic questioning in the Protagoras; 4. The competition between philosophy and rhetoric in the Gorgias; 5. The dialectical development of the philosopher and sophist in the Republic; 6. Philosophers, sophists, and strangers in the Sophist; 7. Love and rhetoric in Plato's Phaedrus.