Political Discourse
“Oratory”
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political discourse · discourse · general and useful themes · oratory · the art of discourse
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Against the Sophists
The art of persuasive public speaking, treated as a creative discipline requiring fitness, propriety, and originality rather than fixed technical rules.
Nevertheless, I do think that the study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form such qualities of character.
But it is not these sophists alone who are open to criticism, but also those who profess to teach political discourse.
For, excepting these teachers, who does not know that the art of using letters remains fixed and unchanged, so that we continually and invariably use the same letters for the same purposes, while exactly the reverse is true of the art of discourse?
Antidosis
The form of discourse oriented toward public, general, and useful civic questions.
and, furthermore, that I may show you clearly that we who are occupied with political discourse and whom they call contentious are more considerate than they;
But why should we be surprised at him when even among the professors of disputation there are some who talk no less abusively of the art of speaking on general and useful themes than do the most benighted of men, not that they are ignorant of its power or of the advantage which it quickly gives to those who avail themselves of it, but because they think that by decrying this art they will enhance …