Plato Part 1

Socrates and Gorgias are taking sides on the meaning and importance of Rhetoric in ones' life as well as the .

Since I am not really understanding the correlation between a shoe maker and a doctor, I will argue initially on the side of Gorgias because he isn't quite as secretive of his ideas as Socrates.

Polus is logical with his thinking when it comes to rhetoric. For instance, at the beginning, Chaerephon mentions that if a doctor's son becomes a painter, what does that make him, an Polus' answer was, "a painter, obviously," (Polus 5, C). However, Polus eventually grew tired of Socrates’ arguments.

Finally, Polus believes in a strong government with no regard to the citizen because the citizen doesn’t have the power and command that the politician has. Gorgias believes similarly, but puts more emphasis on divine right and duty of those who are not elected.
Honestly, I don’t think that Gorgias or Polus could have bettered their argument since they already had flawed ideas because Socrates spotted them and went after them.