Enchanting the Soul With Words

Image via Wikipedia Plato’s Phaedrus is a rather short dialogue about rhetoric and speech making. After giving us three model speeches, Socrates and his young friend Phaedrus discuss the speeches and draw some conclusions about what makes for a good rhetorician. One point stands out: Socrates argues that the orator leads the soul. Stated thus, […]

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