Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2012, nr XXII/2
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Item De philosophis et rhetoribus inter se aemulantibus(Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, 2012) Stroh, WilfriedFrom the time of Isocrates, who first made fun of some philosophers, and Plato, who in his Gorgias despised the orators and denied rhetoric being an art, up to the end of antiquity there was a vehement fight between rhetoricians and philosophers as educators of young people. But for a long time in this dispute we only hear the voice of philosophy, since rhetoric whose utility seemed beyond doubt not thought it necessary to defend herself. Cicero was the first of all writers we know who justified rhetoric and blamed Socrates for having separated the arts of speaking and thinking. Also in imperial time rhetoricians had to apologize, for then we first hear about men who deserted from rhetoric to philosophy.