Phaedrus Rhetorical Analysis

Scholars of rhetoric consider the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, one of the great contributors to our present understanding of this art which, since its early origins and until present, has been a controversial field of study because of its association with persuasion and influence. However, an examination of ancient rhetoric and its development by the Sophists and then a study on Aristotle’s theory on rhetoric and how he concluded his findings direct our attention to whether this Greek philosopher only included in his theory what he described as inadequate and non-fundamental Sophistic teachings, or actually built up his theory on their techniques, long bashed and overlooked. In this essay, I consider Aristotle’s rhetoric is an evolution

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It's actually simple to explain how it works, for a long time long before it had been given the name special philosophers worn it; it works by using philosophy and rhetoric as did Socrates for his teachings. To use this combination take effort examining and wonder, if you were someone trying to explain why you disagree with someone else and you want to get your point across very clearly, then knowing the correct ethics is important for this method. It takes some time for this to complete, there is more than one step to making perfection; which is so interesting to know that Socrates took a bunch of steps to create his wonderful writing. Generally the end of the line comes to a lot of help for the reader and as well for the one writing. Information

What is unusual about the first section of the Gorgias is that, rather than disabuse one for claiming to know some Y or Z, Plato tried to show that rhetoric is one of moral bankruptcy. Socrates wished to know what is rhetoric and its purpose. Gorgias is consulted by Socrates since he was deemed an expert in rhetoric. Rhetoric for Gorgias is the ability to persuade others, specifically jurors in the courts, members of the Council, and citizens attending the assembly (Plato, 13, 452e). However, Socrates astutely found that other professions have the ability to persuade. Gorgias responded by stating that the ability to persuade is specifically for mass meetings (Plato, 15, 454b). Persuasion can take two paths: one that confers conviction without proper understanding and another which confers knowledge. Rhetoric as described by Gorgias is persuasion which leads to conviction. Therefore, rhetoric is an agent of persuasion to produce conviction and not to educate citizens. The nature of persuasion produced is based on opinion and not knowledge. The rhetorician is an expert in knowing what the masses want, which is pleasure. From this knowledge the rhetorician can please the crowd to gain their support. In contemporary American politics this is an indispensable ability where the citizens’ passions are used in order for the politician to be elected to public

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According to Socrates, in order for authors to effectively use rhetoric to test a soul on its

Socrates overall views rhetoric as a form of flattery. It is not something that you can learn to do or use knowledge to get better at. It’s something you just know to do from mere experience rather than expertise. In a more defined sense, flattery is being good at creating your desired effect by bringing people pleasure. If you can make people feel good about themselves than you have power and can manipulate people.

Aristophanes exposes the dangers of Socratic philosophy and provides a direct solution in restoring customs and belief in Zeus. He does not directly critique Socratic philosophy on the grounds of truth, in fact he may even agree with some of the views of human nature, morality, and customs he attributes to Socrates. However, this does not stop him from portraying Socrates as a character who instead of being overwhelmingly concerned with objective truth is rather worried about winning arguments with the use of manipulative rhetoric. Aristophanes depicts Socrates as a sophist in this text and discredits him for his philosophy towards objective truth and the philosopher kings’ ability to identify it. Relativism is the view that truth and falsity

When writing a novel, an author may run into some difficulties when they are trying to convey a specific emotion or idea through the use of words alone. For some writers, it is essential that they get the reader to arrive at a certain conclusion from reading their work in order for them to understand what the author’s message was. In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis the author’s use of a graphic novel to portray her life while living during the Iranian Revolution, allowed her to convey the impacts of the oppressive rule on her life and on those around her. Satropi opts to only use black and white in her illustrations and chooses to rely on different artistic techniques to get her point across. Some of the techniques that she uses to emulate her childhood are contrast and negative space.

Plato and Aristotle are two rhetoricians than had a great impact on the history of rhetoric. Although they were similar in many ways, their use and definition of rhetoric were different. Plato had the more classical approach where he used rhetoric as a means of education to pass down his beliefs and practice of rhetoric to his students. He believed that it should be used to educate the masses, provoking thought, and thereby preserving that knowledge. Plato thought that rhetoric should be used to convey truth, truths already known to the audience, revealed through that dialectic critical thought. Plato also operated on absolute truths, things that are right or wrong, black or white. Aristotle was more modern in that he used rhetoric as a

When Plato was writing Phaedrus he strategically wrote inspiring speakers arguing one who speaks noble and well must know the truth about the subject he is going to discuss. Likewise, Plato did not forgot about the responsibility of an audience. “According to reflections inaugurated by the Theuth and Thamus myth, the written word is not the most suitable vehicle for communicating truth, because it cannot answer questions put to it; it simply repeats itself when queried; it tends to substitute the authority of the author for the reader’s open minded inquiry into the truth; and it circulates everywhere indiscriminately, falling into the hands of people who cannot understand it.”(Kraut) Thus, the responsibility of the audience is to have an accurate

After reading the issues raised by these six authors, I think we should be most concerned with "Phaedrus" by Plato. With how advanced technology has gotten we as humans have become so reliant to it that if there was a technical difficulty, we would start to panic. I think technology does make us lazy because it's made such progress that many of our daily tasks can be done with little effort on our part. I'm not sure we would know what to do without

Aristotle’s idea of rhetoric is invention or the faculty of finding the best mean of persuasion in the particular case. Aristotle stated that there are two means of invention one is artistic and the other is nonartistic. The nonartisic form of invention is something that already exists prior to speech; something that can be applied. The artistic form of invention is made up of three proofs which are logos, pathos, and ethos. There are three types of proofs artistically created by a speaker, “those which demonstrated that a thing is so (logos), those which depend for their effectiveness or believability or the speaker (ethos), and those designed to sweat a listener’s feelings (pathos)” (Golden 68). The threefold analysis of invention by Aristotle’s

The argument begins with Polus telling Socrates that rhetoric and oratory can give you great power and high regard. He likens their position to tyrants who do what they see fit. To this Socrates says, " I say, Polus,

Socrates and Plato differ from Isocrates by believing that rhetoric, which distributes wisdom, comes from the soul. “The man whose rhetorical teaching is a real art will explain accurately the nature of that to which his words are to be addressed, and that is the soul.” (163) Ones soul is affected by decisions made by the human form and also by those interacting with the soul. The wise man’s soul contains wisdom, truth and intelligence. Thus, by interacting with a bad soul or a soul with bad intent lowers to soul of a just and wise man. Since rhetoric is distributing knowledge to others, the soul should be used when making hard and uncertain decisions. The soul of a wise person holds ultimate truth and its human form knows how to seek out knowledge and understanding to find ultimate truth by ways of questioning.