Techne: This word was used in theprevious chapter to mean a handbook or model of reading, but in this chapter it is used in a way to mean a true art or discipline. Plato thinks rhetoric is not a true art because he believes they must take years, or even a lifetime of study.

Erga: This is a desirable outcome. This is plural, and the singular form is ergon. True practitioners of an art will be motivated by achieving a goal and unlike Sophists who simply try to change opinions. I do believe that this can be classified as their goal since they use rhetoric as a strategy to try and do so.

Episteme:This is real knowledge of justice and is in direct contrast to Pisteis. This is what Plato thinks true arts should consist of, such as sciences. He tries to connect science with justice as if there is a true form of goodness and it is unending and only one form is true. Logos is one thing that this is based off of.

Pisteis: These are beliefs about justice, the opposite of episteme, according to Plato. This is based on pathos, which appeals to emotions instead of logos.

Poises: These are productive arts that produce specific things. An example of this is pottery or sculpting. This may be why Plato disagrees with the Sophists and their type of rhetoric: because they don’t actually produce results or facts, only persuading opinions.

 

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