Plato: Gorgias and Aristotle: Rhetoric

Collections: Philosophy, Greeks, Translation

Genre: NONFICTION > Translations

Plato: Gorgias and Aristotle: Rhetoric

Joe Sachs

Role: Author

Sachs has been a Tutor at St. John鈥檚 College for over thirty years and is a well renowned translator of Aristotle and Plato.

By pairing translations of Gorgias and Rhetoric, Joe Sachs demonstrates Aristotle’s response to Plato. If in the Gorgias Plato probes the question of what is problematic in rhetoric, in Rhetoric, Aristotle continues the thread by looking at what makes rhetoric useful. By juxtaposing the two texts, an interesting “conversation” is illuminated – one which students of philosophy and rhetoric will find key in their analytical pursuits.