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| Introduction | “What is the art of Rhetoric?” asks Polus. "Not an art at all," replies Socrates, "but a thing which in your book you affirm to have created art." Polus asks, “What thing?” and Socrates answers, "An experience or routine of making a sort of delight or gratification." “But is not rhetoric a fine thing?”asks Polus. "I have not yet told you what rhetoric is. Will you ask me another question—What is cookery?" demands Socrates. “What is cookery?” "An experience or routine of making a sort of delight or gratification. Then they are the same, or rather fall under the same class, and rhetoric has still to be distinguished from cookery." “What is rhetoric?” asks Polus once more. Socrates responds, "A part of a not very creditable whole, which may be termed pandering." ––Plato's Gorgias |
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