PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- In the following passage from Plato's Phaedrus, we have a recapitulation of the contents of the manuals.
PHAEDRUS: … we still seem to be in the dark about rhetoric.
SOCRATES: What? Can there really be anything of value that admits of scientific acquisition despite the lack of that procedure? If so, you and I should certainly not disdain it, but should explain what this residuum of rhetoric actually consists in.
PHAEDRUS: Well, Socrates, of course there is plenty of matter in the rhetorical manuals.