"Sophists not only do not have cleared minds, what keeps their minds cluttered is predispositional endpoint inquiry: they ask the kinds of questions which presuppose specific answers, and they ask those questions in order to get the answers.
It may be the case that a questionless slave boy is beter than a questioning sophist, but given the success of the slave boy in having a clear mind, more is required from him."
Plato's Meno
Questions:
1. Can Virtue be taught?
2. Can virtue be obtained through tangible means (modeling, experience, innate unfolding)
3. Virtue through divine dispensation or luck.
Questions of teaching and learning, Theory of Recollection and Forms exist apriori.
2 conceptions of eloquence:
1. techne: discrete, particular, specialized ability or craft
2. arte: overall human excellence
--> sophists can either achieve excellence or virtue; or for money, fame, social status that comes with the perfection of their rhetorical craft.
About Sophists
Neel: sophistry focuses on language and language influences status quo notions of opinions and truth. and the status quo must engage in sophistry for public voicing of both sides of an issue to exist - a rhetorical tradition of persuasion.
Blair: sophistic education enables citizens to make decisions in a realm of contingency and competing logics.
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