Gorgias, Plato and their Successors
by
Robert Wardy
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
What is rhetoric?
Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? This is the rhetoric of ideological manipulation and political seduction. Rhetoric is for some a distinctive mode of communication; for...