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| Aristotles Definition of Rhetoric |
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| The art or skill of knowing in any particular instance all the means of persuasion |
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| The more centralized the power the ____ need for rhetoric |
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| The less centralized the power the ____ need for rhetoric |
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1. To Instruct
2. To Correct
3. To Defend
4. To persuade |
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| 5 cannons of Rhetoric in Order |
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Invention
Arrangement
Style
Memory
Devilery |
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| What are the "Ideal" Forms |
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| Plato says that before you were born, you were in a perfect world with the perfect guy/house/job but once you got into the real world after being born, life is a struggle because you know what's suppose to be perfect and you struggle finding it |
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| 2 main types of reasoning |
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| Take the number of experiences into consideration to develop a GENERAL PRINCIPLE |
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| Take a known general principle or theory (scientific reasoning) that will apply in every instance |
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| Today, sophists are _____ and ______, back then, sophists were ____ and ____ |
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| Name 2 of Isocrates critiques of the sophists.. (why he didn't like them) |
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1. Failed to teach how to theorize
2. Taught to get people out of a specific situation, charged too much |
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| What was Isocrates accused of? |
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| Failed to make enough money to have a building/ship constructed in his honor |
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| According to Plato, what distracts us from the truth? |
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| Do you learn from those you love or those you don't love? |
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| Lysious: those you don't love (Said this in Thagerous) |
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| Name the 5 reasons rhetoric is bad? |
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1. It's seductive
2. Hides the truth
3. Able to argue something is good and bad
4. Rhetoric isn't dialect
5. Rhetoric isn't philosophy, doesn't help produce a better life |
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| Where does rhetoric begin? |
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| Classical Greek rhetorical theory is most concerned with... |
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| Classical Romans rhetorical theory is most concerned with.... |
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| Medieval rhetorical theory is most concerned with.... |
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| Renaissance rhetorical theory is most concerned with.... |
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| enlightenment rhetorical theory is most concerned with.... |
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| Science/Reason vs. Rhetoric |
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| What are the 3 genres of Rhetoric? |
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1. Forensic (court rooms/past)
2. Epideictic (award/funerals/present)
3. Deliberative (Government/future) |
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| Aristotle believed there were two ways to prove the truth... |
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-Artistic (Artistic)
-Artificial (in-artistic) |
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| What are 3 artistic proofs? |
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Ethos (ethical)
Pathos (emotion)
Logos (logic) |
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| what is the "rhetorical situation" |
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| Context in which rhetorical act is included (audience in the position of argumentation) |
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| What is Aristotle's most common for of argumentation? |
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| A statement allows the audience to fill in the premise, "assume the audience agrees with us, which means we allow the audience to finish/fill in an arguement" |
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| Syllogism (and what type of reasoning its based on) |
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| DEDUCTIVE, major premise + minor premise = conclusion |
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| who we theorize and evaluate Rhetoric |
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| Take a series of instances and eliminate the possibilities to choose possible alternative |
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