"By thoroughly blending instruction in rhetoric with moral philosophy, Quintilian implicitly responds to Plato's fears about the corrupt use of oratory." (361)
Plato's fear of corrupt oratory is based in his dislike of moral relativism as an idea by which orators could operate. Today, wouldn't the end goal of an unbiased moral philosophy lecture be to showcase the variety or moralistic understanding, therefore reaffirming the very thing Plato wanted to avoid?
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