Abstract

In his Antidosis Isocrates defends his »school for orators« against the criticism of sophistic greed for money by presenting paradigmatic arguments that aim to prove the usefulness of the school for the common good. He thereby distances himself firmly from the moral discourse of the Platonic Academy. The exemplary practice of his school creates a symbolic form, which of course has influenced Plato in his Apology of Socrates. Isocrates places this form right in the middle of the polis.