Philosophy and rhetoric: Plato's critique of the sophists

• Autor: Numpaque García, Julián Ramiro
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.revistas.unife.edu.pe:article/2773
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.unife.edu.pe/index.php/phainomenon/article/view/2773
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Platón; filosofía; retórica; sofistas; erística; Plato; philosophy; rhetoric; sophists; eristic

This article aims to point out that Plato’s criticism of Sophists and rhetoric is not a condemnation of them, but a distance from traditional rhetoric in order to introduce his proposal for a philosophical rhetoric. For this objective, the aim is to: 1) outline the definition of the concepts ‘rhetoric’ and ‘sophistic’, and characterize the principles of ‘sophistic rhetoric’; 2) To address Plato’s criticism of the sophists from the Gorgias, pointing out the arguments with which Plato criticizes the rhetoric and the Sophists; 3) To analyze the dialogical method of the Sophists (eristics) and how it opposes the philosopher’s method (dialectic); 4) Finally, to point out, starting from the Phaedrus, Plato's foundations for the consolidation of a ‘philosophical rhetoric’, that is, of a genuine philosophical dialogue that serves as an overcoming of traditional rhetoric.