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• Eristic (the Art of Contention)

  Eristic (eristikē) is the combative question-and-answer art whose end is victory, indifferent to truth — the power "to refute whatever may be said, no matter whether it is true or false" (Euthydemus 272b). The Euthydemus is the corpus's fu…

• Euthydemus Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. Rosamond Kent Sprague, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue

• Gorgias Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. Donald J. Zeyl, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue

• Gorgias

  Gorgias of Leontini (c. 483–375 BCE), the celebrated rhetorician and sophist after whom Plato's Gorgias is named, and (in the dialogue's world) the teacher of Meno. Unlike Protagoras, the dialogue's Gorgias does not claim to teach "virtue"…

• Menexenus Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. Paul Ryan, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue

• Protreptic (Exhortation to Virtue)

  Protreptic (προτρεπτικὸς λόγος, "the speech that turns toward") is the hortatory speech-act that converts a hearer to the pursuit of philosophy, virtue, and the care of the soul — distinct from, and in the dialogues typically prior to, the…

• Rhetoric (Plato's Two Faces)

  Plato gives rhetoric two opposed treatments that must be held together. In the Gorgias it is condemned as a knack of flattery (empeiria/kolakeia) — not a craft (technē) at all, because it "has no account (logos) of the nature… is able to s…