Book of Donmon Teith

Readership: Anyone interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, or the ancient Greek world

Stauffer demonstrates the complex unity of Plato's Gorgias through a careful analysis of the dialogue's three main sections. This includes Socrates' famous argu

The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly su

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 book explores Plato's views on what an 'art of argument' should look like, investigating the relationship between psychology and rhetoric.