ENG 720 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Callicles, Public Culture, Dialectic
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Stephen colbert is socratic, he knows where to lead the convo. Gorgias, sophists of greece, are spokespeople for public culture. Gorgias submits to socrates" dialectic questioning (449b) This dialogue is interested in the limits of persuasion (453d) Gorgias likes politicians, people who gave speeches. He believes specialists increase the good in society; but gorgias argues rhetoric is used to get funding for civi projects. Anxious about entrusting the teaching of justice to rhetoricians. Polus (461) who is forced to submit to socratic refutation (dialectic) Socrates argues rhetoric is not an art but a knack for producing grati cation. It"s just going to gratify an audience rather than get them to a point. Rhetoric is a form of attery (463b) Rhetoric is a phantom of a part of statecraft . Socrates makes a long speech to polus (464b - 466a) Polus: tyrants are kickass! they have so much power. Socrates compares rhetors to panderers, and polus is angry.
