Tag: 15-16 April 2026

Plato & Political Language Plato’s critical appraisal of poetry, rhetoric, and sophistry is well-documented, as is his employment of the dialogue form to challenge the social and political relevance of prominent intellectuals such as Gorgias, Prodicus, and Protagoras. However, Plato’s own discursive preference, sometimes labeled dialectic, is rarely taken to matter for his political interests.…