Cicero · Politics
Cicero’s lifelong conviction that the ideal is the union of eloquence and wisdom - the philosopher who can speak and the orator who knows - and his defence of rhetoric against those who would divorce it from truth.
You learned Cicero’s ideal of the union of eloquence and wisdom - the orator who is also a philosopher. Centuries earlier, Plato had attacked rhetoric as mere flattery divorced from truth. State how Plato’s critique challenged the very art Cicero defended.
Leads to Plato.
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