A fluted Platonic discourse
As part of what can be considered as a kind of continuing joking controversy with the rhetoricians, Plato (427 - 347 BC) shows in a dialogue between Socrates and Menexenus as a discourse of fluting type stately and memorial penetrate in the ears like music and leave the listener a feeling of reverence for more than three days, almost we were in another world such is the ability of speakers to be able to touch the deepest chords of the human soul (deceiving the public by following the same proven techniques). However one should not even "do the whole a bundle" and reduce the rhetoric art adapted to charlatans, in fact the criticism is only to that logos that does not use of the reasoning or the dialectical cleverly playing on the emotions and feelings of the listener, and indeed can praise a lot of rhetoric that simply bring out the idea of Well thanks to a true exposure. [automatic translation global English]
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Date: 17/04/2010
 article n°: 1248
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