History Flashcards
- Greek
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
- Egypt
Advise king Tut on crops growing
Sophists “bearers of Wisdom”
Speech writers : logographers
Practitionists
Teachers
Corax of Syracuse
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!
Protagoras. We DECIDE
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.
GORGAS Grand flourishes
Successful teacher
Emphasis on speakers personal success: Vince Lombardi
Reality is subjective, what we make it
Decline of Sophists caused by
Good.
Individual belief and opinions
Made Democracy possible
Bad. Subjective only. Divisive. Only for court system
Critiques of sophists
Plato. There are Truths! Not beneficial to individual or society. They were not interested in virtue. Used to manipulate “ignorant masses”
Isocrates
Older
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
Aristotle “Great Synthesis of the Rhetoric
The available means of persuAtion
✴️✴️Ethos my own credibility
Pathos appeals to emotion
Logos argument
Roman Cicero
Politician and Jurist
Codified laws