Final review Flashcards
Tropes
Words with a common place
What are experts?
People who can perform better in certain area than the general public
Dialogic Expertise
Expertise based on many people talking
What are wikipedia’s five pillars of acceptance?
neutral point of view, free licensing, respectful domain, and no firm rules or policies.
What is traditional expertise reliant on?
It is fundamentally reliant on adherence to accepted practices of knowing
What is plato’s world of forms?
A place where everything is perfect, a place that this world is based off of
What is dialectic?
A philosophical method that provides true knowledge
What is socratic?
Very questioning, scared students into learning
What is techne?
An experience, habitude, or knack
According to Gorgias what is rhetoric?
An art used to convince people
According to socrates/plato what is rhetoric?
Rhetoric is a way to tell people to get something or side one way without teaching them as to why they should view that thing in a certain way
What does dialectic have to do with plato’s theory of forms?
Dialectic is the process of finding the object closest to its ideal form
What do sophists do according to plato?
They just try to sell things and convince people in a sly way. They are greedy
What is Protagoras’ homo menus thesis?
Man is the measure of all things. What humans know is constrained by their senses
What is truth to plato?
Truth is absolute and exists only in the world of forms
What is truth to sophists?
Truth is constructed in the community
Doxa
Doxa is the publics opinion or belief. Must know dosa in order to be persuasive
What did Isocrates believe in?
Philosophy is good we will never know higher truth outside of ourselves
Devote onesself to public good
Must be ethical self governors
Use rhetoric to achieve this
According to Isocrates, what is education
Education is being well-rounded
What is kairos?
Moment of decision or action
According to Isocrates what should be in a rhetor?
Persuasion and ethics
Who was Aristotle?
Plato’s pupil
Epistemology is what
Epistemology is what we can know
What were plato, isocrates, and aristotles big ideas?
Plato:World of forms
Socrates:Truth in culture
Aristotle: Natural (human) world
What did Aristotle believe?
We can know everything by using formal logic
Syllogism
Three parts. Map, MiP, and Conclusion. A way to arrive at a conclusion
According to Isocrates what is rhetoric?
Rhetoric is outward feeling and inward thought, not merely expression but reason, feeling and imagination, persuading ourselves and others, directing public and house affairs, human nature is above animality
Isocrates pedagogy
Native ability, practice or experience, education, hard work
Map
All men are equal
Mip
Socrates is a man
Conclusion
Socrates is mortal
Conditional syllogism
IF something is happening, THEN I will do this
Example of syllogism
Map:If it is raining i will stay home
Mip: It is raining
Conclusion: I will stay home
Dialectic and Rhetoric according to Aristotle?
Rhetoric is the counterpart to dialectic. Rhetoric is full of deception, while dialectic shows real skill in teaching
Is science rhetoric or dialectic according to aristotle?
dialectic
Is formal logic rhetoric or dialectic according to aristotle?
rhetoric
Inartistic(Aristotle)
pre-existing or discovered
Artistic
Generated by rhetor
Ethos
Rhetors character exhibited in speech
Pathos
Arousing a feeling to affect judgement
Logos
Demonstrating the reasonableness of the argument
Phronesis
Good sense
Euonia
Good will
Arete
good moral or character
