I perceive Plato as addressing his views on rhetoric by listing the many theories and philosophies that rhetoric is not. For example, talks about how sophist use rhetoric to deceive people, (Socrates uses this on trial), and I think he includes this to tell that he does not support sophist and the way they “teach rhetoric.” Quote to support my previous claim, Plato states, “Sophistic rhetoric led people to base their actions on emotion and opinion rather than reason and knowledge.” (Classical Greek Rhetoric, 110).
However, I have many questions for class on my many annotations I’ve made. I became very confused with Plato’s reasoning/ideas produced.