Comparing Aristotle's Rhetoric To Be Beneficial To Democracy

In an essence, Plato found rhetoric to be bad because of the five problems being that rhetoric is seductive, vague, arouses emotions, used for monetary purposes, and quality changing. In consideration with the persuasive nature of rhetoric being able to out the truth. Whereas, Aristotle believed rhetoric to be beneficial to democracy, due to rhetoric being a component in the process of finding the truth. The third classical Greek Sophist brought forth ideas of ethics. Isocrates believed that teaching for money was unethical, but emphasized educating the youth to give back to the community. These Sophists taught rhetoric in different forms, but all brought forth the groundwork for how rhetoric is practiced and studied today.