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Title: The Phaedrus and True Rhetoric


1
The Phaedrus and True Rhetoric
  • Speaker must know the truth
  • Philosopher
  • Define terms and distinguish the debatable
  • Logician

2
The Phaedrus and True Rhetoric
  • Principles of order and arrangement must be
    introduced
  • Aesthetics
  • Know the nature of the soul and motivations of
    humans
  • Psychologist

3
The Phaedrus and True Rhetoric
  • Master style and delivery
  • Performer
  • High moral purpose and expressing what is
    acceptable to God
  • Theologian

4
Plato
  • For Plato the highest form of engagement was
    dialogue or dialectic
  • Next was rhetoric
  • Finally writing

5
Plato
  • The true art that restores lost health to a sick
    soul is
  • Justice
  • not rhetoric
  • Rhetoric is the counterfeit to justice
  • True justice aims at restoring health to a sick
    soul

6
Plato
  • He argued that rhetoric as practiced by the
    Sophists
  • perverts justice by suggesting that actual
    justice has been achieved
  • When only persuasion of justice has occurred

7
Plato and the Soul
  • Three parts
  • Wisdom
  • Nobility and honor
  • Lust and the appetites
  • Thus, individuals are categorized by which part
    of the Soul is most dominate

8
Plato
  • The techne
  • or, the method(s) used to create a true Art of
    Rhetoric
  • Used to bring about justice and harmony in a
    society
  • Based on knowledge of justice and of the Soul

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Plato
  • The goal of rhetoric is to establish
  • ..order in the State and the Soul
  • The wisdom part persuades the other two parts to
    submit to its control
  • Speculate what kind of world would we have if
    this was actually put into practice?
  • How do these ideas relate to current theory about
    Soul/soul, psychology, and theology?
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