Comparing Plato's Phaedrus And Gorgias

Plato’s “Phaedrus” and “Gorgias” explore the views of rhetoric, and its major influences on society, giving speeches, beliefs and how to best interpret the spoken word that come from the lips of today’s society. Although the two are documents in Plato’s perspective of rhetoric, the texts need to be picked more to get to the best part of Plato’s perspective of rhetoric. With the topic of Sophists, there is also the premonition of Socrates’ three speeches of love infecting the lives of society, as it won’t give a clear explanation to those that are ignorant to love. Plato’s “Gorgias” and “Phaedrus” influence rhetoric. With “Gorgias”, Plato states that rhetoric is the art of persuading the ignorant about justice or injustice of a matter. His conversations with Callicles clears the air of a
In Phaedrus, the Sophists are explored, and the three words of love and their affects on society are followed. In the first speech, which explore Eros, the sexual parts of a relationship, or a relationship that is only physical. Eros, according to Plato, in Phaedrus, is linked to Lysias, which lectures on sex without the passionate innuendoes of a relationship. In other words, Lysias focuses on the non-lover. Philia, which is the second word of love, means deep friendship; with this word, Socrates’ first speech, and that entails the argument of going against love. In other words, it disparages intimate love, and only seeks to promote the innocent form of love, which is friendship. The third word of love is Agape, which is love for everyone. This could mean family and spouses; Socrates’ second speech follows the meaning of Agape by encompassing the growing love of those who may share more than friendship, and this creates more of an understanding for