Plato, Phaedrus, §§ 227-257, §§ 257-279.
Richard Weaver, “The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric,” in The Ethics of Rhetoric (New York: Henry Regnery, 1953), pp. 3-26.
[1] In “The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric,” Richard Weaver derives an ethical schema from Plato’s Phaedrus. What is this ethical schema? Is it a reliable basis for determining the ethical value of rhetorical discourse?
[2] What do the speeches of Lysias and Socrates and Socrates’ critiques of the three speeches tell us about Plato’s view of rhetoric?
[3] What is Plato’s view of divine madness and how does it inform his view of rhetoric?
[4] What is the role of knowledge in the true art of rhetoric that Plato outlines in Phaedrus?
[5] What is Plato’s critique of writing? How does this critique relate to rhetorical theory?








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