Plato is one of Socrates disciples (a Greek philosopher who seek the truth on any matter). There is a dialogue in which Plato uses Socrates’ questioning style to question Gorgias (A rhetorician) about the ideals of rhetoric. Socrates keeps questioning about the meaning of ‘Art of Rhetoric’ and how it is called an Art. Coming to the point where this art is a matter of discourse where anything can be argued and won over to whoever’s sides, depending on the effect of persuasion, Socrates differs with this idea, questioning the truth of knowledge and the honesty of it. At the end, Socrates created a sort of refutes to the idea of rhetoric as being an Art on its own which due to specifically one principal disadvantage. Persuading without proof of
