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| Plato argued against the use of rhetoric in philosophy, because it could convince people of falsehoods by psychological manipulation. | |
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| How ironic, then, that he himself practiced philosophical rhetoric! Aristotle's claim that rhetoric is necessary to explain truth is far more honest. | |
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| I disagree. Plato's dialogues are logical, measured attempts to expound Socratic arguments. | |
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| "Sophist" and "Phaedrus" are full of emotive, overly complicated turns of phrase, intended to convince the reader of Plato's own irrational prejudices. | |
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