Yet instead of using this power for their own gain, Plato and Aristotle wrote about and discussed the virtuous use of rhetoric. ... The way Lysius presented his argument seduced Phaedrus past reason on the intellectual level, as Lysius crafted his argument causing his style to be more important than substance. ... Aristotle especially emphasizes this when the offense is involved in the affairs of others. ... Even though some people used rhetoric for ill during Plato and Aristotle's time, these people were looked down upon unfavorably. ... Style alone is what convinces Phaedrus: it mesmeri...

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It is notably the reason the Ancient Greeks built temples and made offerings to their gods, and the reason Christians today pray and attempt to contact God. ... Plato noted that there is necessity 'to end the series of causes,' one might perceive this to be a primitive version of Leibniz's logic that there must be a sufficient reason for the initiation of a series. ... In the dialogue Meno Socrates attempts to demonstrate this argument using a slave boy with no previous knowledge of geometry. ... Plato used this argument as the basis for his doctrine on the Forms. ...

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