Rhetorique des sophistes - rhetorique de Socrate [ 1984 ]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2022

This study examines the concepts of rhetoric used in ancient times, using a process of research based upon “Interpretivist Research Philosophy”. Common thinking among rhetoricians and philosophers in general argues that one concept of rhetoric was utilized. This paper argues that there were at least three concepts of rhetoric known in Antiquity. Each was unique in its own right and contributed to what was to be a new body of knowledge. Research conclusions stem from a study of the works of ancient authors, including Plato and Aristotle, and from schools of philosophies, including the writings of Stoics and Sophists. The reviewed literature supports the thesis presented in this paper that at least three concepts of rhetoric were known and used.

Apeiron 53: 59-80, 2020

The case of Gorgias' profession has been an object of ongoing dispute among scholars. This is mainly because in some dialogues Plato calls Gorgias a rhetorician, in others a sophist. The purpose of this article is to show that a solution only emerges in the Gorgias, where Plato presents Gorgias' goals as a rhetorician and its associated arts. On this basis, Plato introduces a systematic division between genuine arts and fake arts, including rhetoric and sophistry, thereby identifying their conceptual differences and similarities. The paper concludes by arguing that Gorgias can be called both a rhetorician and a sophist, provided that the labeling is done from different perspectives.

This essay argues that Plato’s use of narrative conceals within Socrates’ explicit rejection of rhetorican implicit authorial endorsement, manifested in the dialectical and rhetorical failures surrounding Socrates’ deliberations over logos. I suggest that Aristo- tle’s Rhetoric is consonant with Plato’s view in its general affirmation of rhetoric’s power,utility, and necessity as well as in its specific recommendations regarding logos. I employ Martin Heidegger’s explication of logos in Aristotle to illuminate how the term conforms to Plato’s implicit position regarding logos and rhetoric. This inter- pretation entails an expanded meaning of logos as it is found in Rhetoric, assigning it a more primary, pre-logical, oral content.

Polis: The Journal for Greek Political Thought, Vol. 23/1 (2006)

According to Plato and Aristotle, the confusion of sophistry and philosophy in the opinion of Socrates' fellow citizens in Athens ultimately led to his trial and execution. This essay seeks to highlight and clarify the resemblance and the fundamental distinction between sophistry and philosophy, especially with respect to the art of rhetoric articulated by Gorgias in his Encomium of Helen and interrogated by Socrates in Plato's Gorgias. Rivals in their use of persuasive speeches, Gorgias and Socrates embody the quarrel between two competing modes of discourse and the ways of life that ineluctably result from their practice. Their public dispute centres on the aim or purpose of an art of rhetoric. This essay argues that Gorgias, though moved to silence by his conversation with Socrates in Plato's dialogue, disclosed to his inquisitor the true power of rhetoric, and thus the necessity to constrain rather than reject its use.

Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, 2012

This essay argues that Plato's use of narrative conceals within Socrates' explicit rejection of rhetoric an implicit authorial endorsement, manifested in the dialectical and rhetorical failures surrounding Socrates' deliberations over logos. I suggest that Aristotle's Rhetoric is consonant with Plato's view in its general affirmation of rhetoric's power, utility, and necessity as well as in its specific recommendations regarding logos. I employ Martin Heidegger's explication of logos in Aristotle to illuminate how the term conforms to Plato's implicit position regarding logos and rhetoric. This interpretation entails an expanded meaning of logos as it is found in Rhetoric, assigning it a more primary, pre-logical, oral content.

https://aab-edu.net/en/documents/thesis-kosova/no-01-2016/truth-rhetoric-adduction-discussion-gorgias-socrates-point-views/, 2016

The object of this treatise is a comparison between Gorgias and Socrates views on rhetoric, namely the truth in rhetoric. The two prominent scholars of Greek antiquity, Gorgias as an expert on rhetoric and Socrates as a well-known philosopher, have attempted to examine the basics of rhetoric. Democracy has made rhetoric a high value of ancient Greek society, as well as an approach to enunciate, review and argue in public on various issues. As a tool of public communication, addressed to the attendees to convince them regarding an issue submitted for discussion and to fulfill its mission in the best to society, rhetoric should have support in the truth. This is the point at which both ancient scholars agree. But the issue is seen from a different point of view, and both defending their own views bring arguments and counter-arguments, which are worth even today. The purpose of this paper is that, through confrontational approach and interpretation, to set diverse views and to reach a conclusion on the truth in rhetoric.

Dialogue, 1999

Classical World, 1998

Before the 5th century B.C.E. basic education for an Athenian boy first and foremost consisted of physical education to cultivate strength, stamina and courage. Secondly they were taught grammata which consisted of reading, writing (using a stylus on a wax tablet) and arithmetic, once their reading became proficient they were given Homer and others work to memorize and recite. Lastly they were taught music, how to play the lyre and flute, along with lyrical poetry through which they learnt history, geography and ethics. Roughly between the age of thirteen to sixteen this education came to an end with only a few aristocratic's continuing their tutelage under the pre-Socratic philosophers. It was not till the second half of the 5th century B.C.E. in democratic Athens that a basic higher education emerged with the sophists, now for a fee any male citizen could receive professional instruction on rhetoric, a skill that was greatly required for public life. In this essay I will therefore take a critical look at the origin and rise of rhetoric and sophistry in ancient Greece with reference to its chief proponents. It is accepted by most historians that rhetoric has its origins in the late 5th century B.C.E. in Syracuse, Sicily: 'A revolution in about 465 B.C. in Syracuse, a Greek colony on the island of Sicily, was the catalyst for the formal study of rhetoric. When the dictators on the island were overthrown and a democracy was established, the courts were deluged with conflicting property claims about rightful ownership and