Having looked at the Sophists and at Plato's opinion of their work, we can see that the reputation of rhetoric as deceitful goes back at least 2,500 years. That raises several questions. Is it rhetoric that is at fault, or is it the people who use rhetoric? Can the two be separated? Under what circumstances might rhetoric be absolutely necessary? What about ethics and morality and their relationship to rhetoric? How are they (or should they be) intertwined?
Posted by sdelagrange at January 28, 2007 06:16 PM