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What are the 3 rhetorical settings according to Aristotle? |
1. Deliberative: toward the future, for everyone, legislative audiences weighed evidence for and against a policy or plan 3. Forensic: reconstructs the past through evidence, to bring the public to believe what you're speaking. |
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What are three parts of Rhetoric (book) by Aristotle? |
1. Defines the domain of rhetoric and describes the three types of oratory. 2. Discusses rhetorical proofs derived from character and emotion. 3. Deals with matters of style and arrangement. |
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What is rhetoric's relationship to dialectic according to Aristotle? |
Rhetoric is the counterpart. Both begin with endoxa, or widely accepted beliefs. Rhetoric differs because it backs up its arguments and claims with sources of support (proofs about the speakers character and from emotions aroused in the audience) |
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What is rhetoric's usefulness according to Aristotle? |
1. Truth prevails over non-truth, and talented writers and speakers should advocate it 2. The situational aspect of audiences makes rhetoric useful |
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Plato's Gorgias primarily deals with: |
Criticism of rhetoric and all rhetoricians and how the sophists are using rhetoric to influence the people wrongly. Outcome: None of the major characters are particularly convinced, yet Plato hints that Rhetoric could be used rightly with Justice as its goal. |
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Who are the three main characters in Plato's Gorgias? |
Gorgias Polus: Student of gorgias and attempts to defend him; loves rhetoric because it has brought power but Plato says he should value it because it could bring justice. Callicles: Obsessed with the raw power that rhetoric has; plato urges him to direct that to persuade others to live justly. Plato says he is a slave to his audience and his own desires.
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What does Plato's Phaedrus primarily deal with? |
Deals with Rhetoric as a true art or not. Furthers Plato’s notion that rhetoric used for the good of the individual and of the society is good itself, but he does not retract his criticism of sophistic rhetoric.
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What are the three parts of the soul according to Plato? |
1. Wisdom lover (charioteer) 2. Honor/Nobility (Horse that listens to commands) 3. Appetite/lust (Unruly horse that if left unchecked will control the charioteer) |
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What are the components of a techne of rhetoric according to Plato and what are the implications? |
1. foundational to a techne of rhetoric is knowledge of truth, but also knowledge of the soul (psychology/people) Two implications: 1. A psychological study of the human soul, focused on its three different types or parts and the loves of each, and
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What are Protagoras' contributions to argument as a whole? |
Said to be the first person to systemize eristic arguments for competition. Arguments only prevail when it has been tested and clashed against. Placed rhetoric at the center of all things, a worldview. |
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What are Protagoras' contributions to the definition of a sophist? |
First person to openly claim to be a sophist First person to charge for lectures Claimed to teach arete (human excellence) "Man is the measure of all things, of things that are not, that they are not; of things that are, that they are". |
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What are the six components of Rhetoric? |
Planned, adapted to an audience, shaped by human motives, responsive to a situation, persuasion-seeking, concerned with contingent issues. |
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What are the six social functions of rhetoric? |
Tests ideas, advocacy is assisted, power is distributed, knowledge is shaped, and communities are built. |
