... that this because the speeches are "the cause both of freedom for human beings themselves and at the same time of rule over others in each man's city" (452d). The shift here is from oratory as a theoretical art to oratory as a practical art. But this shift cannot satisfy ... explanation of any of those things" (Wedgwood 2). Basically, Socrates is saying that oratory is not genuinely an art, because it does not have a rational method based on a true understanding of its subject matter. Oratory cannot offer an explanation or record of why it produces what it does. Orators ... 7). Once ag...

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