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  1. Greek
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Communities now. Value pass on to generations. Old man was a leader. Las Vegas conquerors take PAHRUMP . Who sets the customs Sparta, military
Athenian way: Democracy

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  1. Egypt
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Advise king Tut on crops growing

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Sophists “bearers of Wisdom”

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Speech writers : logographers
Practitionists
Teachers

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Corax of Syracuse

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Inventor of rhetoric as persuasion 
Court proceedings
Doctrine of general PROBABILITY
  Sides to any controversy. One most likely preponderance of evidence.
✳️✳️weaker side seem stronger!
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Protagoras. We DECIDE

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Up till now belief was God Rules our lives. Beginning of Human Agency

For every side there is a contrary side.
The worse case can be made to be better case-
Things can change tomorrow
Truth is what we make it.

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GORGAS Grand flourishes

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Successful teacher
Emphasis on speakers personal success: Vince Lombardi
Reality is subjective, what we make it

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Decline of Sophists caused by

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Good.
Individual belief and opinions
Made Democracy possible

Bad. Subjective only. Divisive. Only for court system

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Critiques of sophists

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Plato. There are Truths! Not beneficial to individual or society. They were not interested in virtue. Used to manipulate “ignorant masses”

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Isocrates

Older

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Truth is subjective. Language shapes reality
Shift now from courts to politics
PHILOSOPHY. Essence of society brings us together
✳️✳️civil minded keeps us from selfishness
Have subjective knowledge

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Aristotle “Great Synthesis of the Rhetoric

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The available means of persuAtion
✴️✴️Ethos my own credibility
Pathos appeals to emotion
Logos argument

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Roman Cicero

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Politician and Jurist

Codified laws

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