Plato suggests in Gorgias that certain arts such as justice and medicine are essential to society. Others, such as the Sophist's brand of rhetoric, are imitations of these essential arts. If you had the opportunity to set up a society's system of government, what role, if any, would the study of rhetoric play in it? Would you place any restrictions on the practice of this art?

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The Answer of Plato suggests in Gorgias that certain arts such as justice and medicine are essential to society. Others, such as the Sophist's brand of rhetoric, are imitations of these essential arts. If you had the opportunity to set up a society's system of government, what role, if any, would the study of rhetoric play in it? Would you place any restrictions on the practice of this art?

Plato Suggests in Gorgias That Certain Arts Such as Justice