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Exam 1 cont. Flashcards

1
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Techne

A

The art of Rhetoric taught by sophists

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Nomoi

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The laws & values of different Polis’

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3
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Encomium

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Speech of praise

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4
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Nous

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The mind

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5
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Corax & Tsias

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Teacher & student from sicily. Created an organizational structure for rhetoric (Proem, narration, conf/ref, & peroration) as well as the Doctrine of Probability.

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6
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Thesis of Encomium to Helen

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Helen is not guilty

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7
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4 reasons Helen is innocent

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Fate, Love, Persuasion, and Force

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8
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What is Encomium to Helen really about?

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Rhetoric

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9
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Where does the Gorgias take place?

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Callicles house

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Dialogue

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Conversation (Philosopher to Student)

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Dialectic

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Philosopher to Philosopher. Focus on collection and division of arguments.

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Bad Rhetoric

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Sophists to the masses. Provides the audience with what is pleasurable but no good. Does not lead to Truth and is not based on knowledge of the soul.

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13
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Piety

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Important value to a city state

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14
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Main question of Gorgias?

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Is rhetoric good or bad?

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15
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Aporetic

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Inconclusive ending

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16
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Polus

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Student in the Gorgias

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Plato on decision makers

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Thinks they are uninformed and not users of dialectic. Their choices are too based in opinion.

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18
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Physis v. Nomoi

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Nature v. Convention

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19
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Dialectic & the audience

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Conversation allows for clarity. Leads audience closer to the good.

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Noble Rhetoric

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Philosopher to the masses. Ethical and related to knowledge, power, and politics. Based on a knowledge of souls and seeks to show others knowledge of the good.

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21
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Socrates on Oratory

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Oratory does not lead us closer to the Truth. It is quick with an immediate response and unjust rather than carefully thought out. Prefers Discussion. Knack, flattery, and cookery. Gives what is pleasing not what is good.

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22
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Socrates on Discussion

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Discussion is long & drawn out. It is also just & carefully considered. It brings us closer to the Truth.

23
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Gymnastics

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Cosmetics

24
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Medicine

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Pastry Baking

25
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Legislation

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Sophistry

26
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Justice

A

Oratory

27
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Is is worse to do something unjust or have something unjust done to you?

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Worse to do something unjust because you’re consciously doing something wrong.

28
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What is worse than doing something unjust?

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Acting unjustly and not being punished because you’ll continue the unjust behavior.

29
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Just Actions

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Examine power, temperance, & virtue. Good orators instill these in an audience.

30
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Lysias

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One of the great speakers. Just gave a speech on why Friendship is better than love when you’re choosing a mentor.

31
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Where does phaedrus take place?

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Outside the city walls. This is outside of socrates comfort zone. He prefers to stay in the agora.

32
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Agora

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Marketplace. Socrates hang out place.

33
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Kerimeikes

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Graveyard. Epideictic speech.

34
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Areopagus

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Courts. Forensic.

35
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Pynx

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Deliberative.

36
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Acropolis

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Highest point in the city. Temple.

37
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Socrates 1st Speech in Phaedrus

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Disadvs. of an evil love as mentor

38
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Socrates 2nd Speech in Phaedrus

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Advs. of a noble lover

39
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Why does socrates cover his face in his first speech?

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Doesn’t actually think what he’s saying is true.

40
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Definition of Love

A

Gift from the gods, Divine Madness

41
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Good Passion

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Knowledge & good

42
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Bad Passion

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Desires

43
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How do horses gain their wings?

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Beauty, wisdom & goodness

44
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White horse

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The will. Pulls chariot upward toward knowledge of the Good & Heaven

45
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Black Horse

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Appetite that leads us to intemperance.

46
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Charioteer

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Reason. Guides us like dialectic.

47
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4 kinds of madness

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Love, Mystic, Poetic, Inspiration

48
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Love

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Aphrodite (Best kind of madness)

49
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Inspiration

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Apollo

50
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Mystic

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Dionysus

51
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Poetic

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Muses

52
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Rhetorical Structure

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Preamble, Statement of facts, Indirect evidence, Claims to plausibility, Confirmation & Supplementary confirmation, Refutation & Supplementary refutation, & Recapitulation

53
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5 Cannons

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Invention (building the arguments)
Disposition (organization)
Style (language use)
Memory
Delivery
54
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Knowing Souls of Audience

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1- Identify souls a precisely as possible
2- How are souls acted upon by certain things
3- Classify the souls & the appropriate speech

Rhetoric 231 cont. (2 decks)

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