Dialogue

 1  Gorg|      Socrates, that the art of persuasion, which gives freedom to
 2  Gorg|       the exact nature of this persuasion?—is the persevering retort:
 3  Gorg|   rhetoric simply as an art of persuasion, because there are other
 4  Gorg| arithmetic, which is an art of persuasion about odd and even numbers.
 5  Gorg|   still there are two sorts of persuasion: one which gives knowledge,
 6  Gorg|      which of the two sorts of persuasion does rhetoric effect in
 7  Gorg|  compare Gorg.), as the art of persuasion, of all arts the best, for
 8  Gorg|   rhetoric is the artificer of persuasion, having this and no other
 9  Gorg|        above that of producing persuasion?~GORGIAS: No: the definition
10  Gorg|       very fair, Socrates; for persuasion is the chief end of rhetoric.~
11  Gorg|    what are the topics of that persuasion of which you speak, and
12  Gorg|     ask— what is this power of persuasion which is given by rhetoric,
13  Gorg|      the only art which brings persuasion, or do other arts have the
14  Gorg|    rhetoric is an artificer of persuasion?~GORGIAS: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
15  Gorg|       one asks us what sort of persuasion, and about what, —we shall
16  Gorg|        what, —we shall answer, persuasion which teaches the quantity
17  Gorg|     speaking are artificers of persuasion, and of what sort, and about
18  Gorg|      not the only artificer of persuasion?~GORGIAS: True.~SOCRATES:
19  Gorg|     not only rhetoric works by persuasion, but that other arts do
20  Gorg|       a very fair one: Of what persuasion is rhetoric the artificer,
21  Gorg|    that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other
22  Gorg|       then assume two sorts of persuasion,—one which is the source
23  Gorg|    SOCRATES: And which sort of persuasion does rhetoric create in
24  Gorg|        and unjust, the sort of persuasion which gives belief without
25  Gorg|  appear, is the artificer of a persuasion which creates belief about
26  Gorg|      not by instruction but by persuasion?~GORGIAS: Quite so.~SOCRATES:
27  Gorg|    will have greater powers of persuasion than the physician even
28  Gorg|      to have greater powers of persuasion.~GORGIAS: Very true.~SOCRATES:
29  Gorg|       is to have more power of persuasion than the physician, he will
30  Gorg|     the utmost their powers of persuasion. But if we, Polus, are right,
31  Gorg|     which they had, whether of persuasion or of force, in the improvement