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1 The Doctor and the Pastry Chef: Pleasure and Persuasion in Plato’s Gorgias Penultimate draft – final version in Ancient Philosophy, 27, 2007 Jessica Moss The Gorgias’ ostensible subject is rhetoric, which it defines as a “producer of persuasion.”1 But the dialogue is also centrally concerned with another kind of persuasion: Socrates’ attempts to persuade his interlocutors to ... ................
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