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Type of paper: Research Paper
Subject area: Literature and Language
Academic level: College
Style: MLA
Size: 30.0 kB
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730 words/3 pages
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Author: Alysha Church
Date submitted: 2008-11-22 00:51:22
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Tags: love, life, writing, society, philosophy, socrates, audience, plato, aristotle, rhetoric, symposium, crito, University Press, Plato, Plato Symposium, Henry Desmond Pritchard
ARISTOTLE VS . PLATO
2008
``Aristotle vs . Plato '
``Page 1 '
Rhetoric , as a form of communication , was offered by Aristotle and
Plato from different views , perceptions and interpretations of words
they used . While Plato was pointing upwards , showing that everything is
eternal , Aristotle was pointing at the real world . Trying to imitate the
teacher (Phaedrus , Aristotle wrote his dialogues (Grullos , and , in
general , their writings have formed the key concepts of ancient
philosophy on the one and rhetoric on the other hand . Yet , as all other
theorists and philosophers , they avoided a common practice of rhetoric ,
stressing on the widespread error of placing arguments and demagogy
instead of public speech .
Both Plato and Aristotle have found rhetoric to be rather
deceitful , though , they had been using it in their writings , speeches
and lectures for Plato was right , when he noticed that it could be used
by philosophers and scholars , because they know how to use it to bring
good for a whole society , without deceitful intentions while all
previous teachers offered rhetoric as a craft to arouse emotional mood
of audience - these were audience 's distractions from the point , rather
than rational judgments . Aristotle had dedicated the whole book to
rhetoric and its influence , and at Grullos he agreed with Plato that it
is an art . An ongoing struggle of Plato with rhetoric is increasing all
through his dialogues : his theories of ultimate ideas and forms of
reality have echoed in Republic 's idea of poetry as a part of rhetoric ,
where the authors were presenting their goods to the greatest audience
possible in order to gain reputation and manipulation .
Just like Plato , Aristotle had been warning the audience on the
influence of rhetorical speeches , their negative and advantageous
impacts , good and bad outcomes . Using the speech alone , they argued , we
can accuse or defend , be just and unjust . Both of them viewed rhetoric
as a method to ``detect aspects of a given subject which are causally
connected with the intended emotion (Aristotle 's Rhetoric , para .21 .
Aristotle 's and Plato 's rhetorical rule was : speaker must address his
subject to the specific hearer , but not to his own mind .
``Aristotle vs . Plato '
``Page 2 '
Plato has considered rhetoric to be dangerous from the facts of
words ' manipulation of public opinion . For him , it was a social threat ,
for it contradicted religious notions of eternal and unchangeable
concepts . Plato antagonized rhetoric , believing that justice and truth
should be based on facts , rather than on person 's ability to influence
society nevertheless , as the time was passing by he accepted rhetoric
as a reasonable and legal tool to address the people . In Gorgias , Plato
denied rhetoric to be an art , because it could not be related to a
specific subject , yet , later he viewed it as art that could be described
in terms , based on reason and method . This is what we find in his
dialogue Phaedrus : ``the rational investigation of futurity [ .] as it
is an art which supplies from...
 

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