Plato and Online Dating: Concerning Rhetoric and Persuasion on the Topic of Falling In Love Online

The points about rhetoric discussed in the Phaedrus center around Plato's idea that what is truly shameful is not poor or bad oration or prose but rather engaging in poor rhetoric which is defined as the art of persuasion and not truth telling. Good or effective rhetoric is said to include: using similarities that the audience can relate to, defining terms and making distinctions in an organized and coherent manner but doing so in a way that convinces the audience at the emotional level as well as the cognitive level.

Remembering that good rhetoric and truth-telling are not the same thing, the point is made that the communicator needs to have knowledge of all sides of an issue as well as understand the 'art' of communication in prose and speeches. This means knowing the purpose of prose and speech-making as well as how maximal communication can be achieved. The foregoing points are utilized in the three communications presented below.

Online Love Relationships: Personal View

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e in no way stops us from seeing these traits that we love in one another. Beyond the foregoing characteristics, you and I have many similar traits which help us to understand and feel attraction for one another. We are both slow to anger. We are both logical. We are both compassionate but not mindlessly so. We both like to discuss the same topics and really think deeply about them, e.g., politics, religion, science fiction. Also, not only do your characteristics and traits emerge strongly in our cyberspace relationship where the physical plays so little part, but also your quality of mind. All I 'see' of you is, in fact, what your mind decides to communicate. What I see is a man who thinks with both his head and his heart. You are an analyst who carefully looks at each idea I have presented but who does so with compassion and perception about people's feelings and emotions. This is precisely the quality of mind that appeals most to me and, as I said, I can see it better online than offline when your 'physicality' can actually distract me from the content, tone, and context of what you are communicating. From statements that you have said to me, I suspect that this is also happening to you regarding my quality of mind.
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