Gorgias and Rhetoric (Focus Philosophical Library)

By pairing translations of Gorgias and Rhetoric, along with an outstanding introductory essay, Joe Sachs demonstrates Aristotles 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.

Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Aristotle and Plato’s immediate audience.

• Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Focus Philosophical Library Series)
• Phaedrus (Hackett Classics)
• Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Hackett Classics)
• The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
• Phaedrus (Penguin Classics)
• Politics (Focus Philosophical Library)
• Plato : Phaedrus: A Translation With Notes, Glossary, Appendices, Interpretive Essay and Introduction (Focus Philosophical Library)
• The Prolific and the Devourer
• Plato: Theaetetus (Focus Philosophical Library)
• Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times