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45 Cards in this Set
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Agon
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Conflict
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Polis
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Citizen-State
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Enthymeme
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A syllogism that's missing the minor premise
Aristotle, Artistic Rhetoric |
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Maxim
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A common saying, statement of a general term
Aristotle, Artistic Rhetoric |
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Example
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Inductive argument
Aristotle, Artistic Rhetoric |
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Arete
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Virtue
Three qualities of Ethos Cicero |
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Eunoia
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Disinterested goodwill
Three qualities of Ethos Cicero |
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Phronesis
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Experience and Judgement
Three qualities of Ethos Cicero |
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Doxa
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Widely held beliefs
Plato (primarily; also Aristotle) |
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Episteme
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Knowledge, key to dialectic in philosophy.
Plato |
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Techne
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True art, has a definition and principles
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Nomos
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Social norms, the belief that truth comes from social argument
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Paideia
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To instruct, educate
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Topos/Topoi
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Topics, fields, premises, lines of argument (Aristotle had like 30 of these)
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Dunamis
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Power, strength, ability
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Peithô
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Persuasion, obedience
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Res Publica
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The end of the Roman Republic
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Eristic
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Discourse of power
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Modernism
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Where polis and physis are one and the same; introduction of "cogito ergo sum," natural law is the source of the truth. Inherently individualistic.
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Logical Positivism
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The use of empiricism and rationalism to determine truth. Opposes metaphysics.
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Argument
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Decision making, persuasion through reasoning, commonplace premises, and risk.
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Audience distinctions
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Particular audience, elite audience, one-on-one audience, audience of the self, and universal audience
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Universal audience
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An audience made up of general reasonable people.
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Physis vs Polis
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Physis - Natural, found in nature, science, law.
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Identification
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Using common substance through language, symbols to put aside biological differences
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Dramatism
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Burke's model that utilizes the language and thought of a drama for analysis; conversely, individuals absorb information in a similar way to how a play is presented.
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Pentad, Ratio
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Pentad - A way of interpreting a scene with an Act, Agent, Scene, Agency, and Purpose.
Ratio - A connection between two terms |
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Terministic screens
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Words create, or frame the world and how we perceive it.
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Action/Motion
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Action is intended movement; motion requires no thought.
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Definition of Human
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Being bodies that learn language, thereby becoming wordlings; symbol-making/symbol-using; inventor of the negative; goaded by the spirit of hierarchy.
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Consubstantiality
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To be substantially one with someone who is otherwise biologically different, through sharing something in common.
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Will to Power
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Source of human strength, the effort to turn inwoard and destroy all that is weak, confortable, and self-indulgent within oneself to become the ubermensch.
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Disciplinary Technology
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Measures to assess and justify the imposition of institutional structures like compulsory education, incarceration of delinquents, etc.
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Panopticon
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A prison system where prisoners are in the constant view of the guard tower, which is obscured to the prisoners. Viewed as a way to maintain power
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Will to Truth
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The human's desire to seek absolute knowledge to ultimately arrive at the truth.
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Aesthetic Life
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Truths arrived upon through discourse
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Producing subjectivity
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Efforts towards producing a genealogy of the modern subject; via dividing practices, scientific classification, and ultimately subjectification vis a vis how we regard ourselves as subjects.
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Genealogy as Method
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The tracing of all disciplinary forces in trying to archive the history of a subject.
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Archaeology as Method
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Seeks to arrive at epistemes, by analyzing discursive formations to reveal constraints and how discourse situates speakers.
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Feminine Gaze
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Speaks specifically to the feminine ability to interpret Medusa into a sign of empowerment, with laughter and a voice - rather than simply a void.
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Masculine Gaze
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Views the female (Medusa) as a sensual power, outlining the alleged feminine need for control.
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Performative Identity
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The ability to interchange one's voice in discourse.
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Writing the Body
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A rhetorical resource to empower, essential part of feminine rhetoric
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Will to Deception
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AI is founded on deception, as is virtual reality; ethical question shifts from "is it true?" to "does it work?"
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Cyborg Culture
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Part human, part other; raises several ethical problems on what the human is, what cloning qualifies as, and who owns them?
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