Rhetorical Comm Exam 1 latest update
together to make decisions about matters of common concern and to construct social reality
Rhetor - answers person using rhetoric, person speaking
Rhetorical Critic - answers someone who studies a person using rhetoric
Symb...
together to make decisions about matters of common concern and to construct social
reality
Rhetor - answers person using rhetoric, person speaking
Rhetorical Critic - answers someone who studies a person using rhetoric
Symbolic action - answers construction of social reality through symbols
Rhetorical Agency - answers the ability to affect change through speech
Posthumanist Agency - answers ??
Material reality vs. Social reality - answers
Thales - answers founder of natural philosophy, everything comes out of water and
returns to water, promoted natural science over mythology
Heraclitus - answers The obscure, nobody can step into the same river twice, father on
conflict
Parmenides - answers said "it is.", we cannot trust our senses
Rhetoric's importance in Ancient Athenian life - answers ?
Polis - answers athenian polis, had to be a citizen to teach, led my male citizens
Agora - answers Translated as an assembly place
Solon - answers The law giver, ended draconian laws, ended debt slavery, opened
athenian citizenship
, Ostracism (Cleisthenes) - answers assembly would meet once a year for these, there
would be nominations, arguments, and then they vote if they want the person to stay or
not. Assets frozen for 10 years if voted out
Corax & Tisias - answers Corax was an early practitioner and teacher of rhetoric and
he taught Tisias who was a logographer. Corax sued Tisias for lack of payment
Logographer - answers someone who wrote speeches for someone being charged in
court of law
Delian League - answers proposed by Themistocles, an alliance of Greek states
Pericles - answers Legendary politician, general and orator, had two sides: good guy
who strengthened democracy and bad guy who built a statue of himself basically (statue
of Athena) and something with the Peloponnesian war
Sophists and reasons they were controversial - answers Challenged traditional ways of
thinking / Eccentric people known as interrupters, intelligent, good speakers / Mostly
foreigners who traveled around (not Athenians) ("internerant teachers") / Charged
money for education / Anyone who could pay could learn / Ascribed to relativism
(knowledge is subjective)
"Itinerant" teachers - answers teachers that moved around
Key beliefs of the Sophists - answers Education as prep for civic life / Rhetoric is a
practical art that helps you go out and do things in life / Emphasis on man as political
being and everyday life
Arete - answers Acheiving one's full potential or excellence
Polymathy - answers knowledge in many areas
Protagoras - answers "Father of Sophistry" / Trial of Protagoras: Charged with impiety,
and tried to flee but died on a ship and then people burned his writings. His beliefs
included Virtue can be taught and Antithesis, meaning, ideas as conflicting, for every
experience there were 2 logics
Dissoi/Logoi - answers ideas in opposition
Story of the Javelin - answers causality is a matter of perspective, it could be anyone's
fault
"Man is the measure" - answers man determines things
Cultural Relativism and Limits of perception - answers Cultural Relativism (who, what,
when, where depends how you see things) / Perception imposes limitations on human
knowledge / The mind finds its starting point in the senses
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