The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theo

Plato is a well-known critic of rhetoric, but in the Phaedrus, he defends the art of rhetoric, arguing that it can be perfected with the aid of philosophy. In R

What is rhetoric? Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want

A germinal examination of rhetoric's beginnings through pre-fourth-century Greek texts How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called "rhetoric"? M

Marina McCoy explores Plato's treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists.