Sophists - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

HUMN I final Exam Questions With Answers The Greek word eudaimonia refers to? the good or flourishing life the Parthenon's 40 foot ivory and gold statue of Athena was intended to represent? Athens political power The Sophists differed from the Pre-Socratics in their focus on? The actions of human beings Socrates differed from the sophists, most notably, in his emphasis on? philosophical wisdom According to Aristotle, a person could come to know universal truths by? Obs...

metaphysics - study of ultimate reality epistemology - study of origin of knowledge ethics - study of morals aesthetics - study of beauty Thales of Miletus - Ionian School (500s BC) all matter is a form of water Anaximander - Ionian School (500s BC) student of Thales; all matter is a form of apeiron ("the boundless") Anaximenes - Ionian School (500s BC) all matter is a form of air Pythagoras - Pythagorean School (500s BC) established school in Crotona, Italy; emphasize...

1) Archaeologists inform us that public relations has roots in  Iraq, where bulletins informed farmers how to grow more food  England, where 18th century bulletins hailed the coming of the British Industrial Revolution  Rome, where tablets paid tribute to new rulers  China, where during the Ming Dynasty peasants wrote messages on the Great Wall 2) The word propaganda originated with  the Creel Committee during World War II  Pope Gregory XV, who established a C...

COM 312-EXAM 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED Helen - answerHelen of Troy - blamed for the Trojan War, wife of Menelaus; mentioned in the Illiad; defended by Gorgias Herodotus - answerWrote "The Histories" - traveled the known world, wrote on politics and culture Heraclitus - answerWrote "Fragments", ascending/descending = the same, simultaneous contradictions; truth cannot be grasped; philosopher of "becoming" ("we are and we are not"); "You cannot step into the same ri...

COMMRC 0310 Exam Questions And Answers How do Keith and Lundberg define rhetoric? - Answer -the study of producing discourses and interpreting how, when, and why discourses are persuasive Who were the Sophists and why were they important? - Answer -The Sophists were a group of wandering Sicilians that taught Athenians how to speak persuasively with the goal of navigating the courts and senate. They were important because Athenian citizens relied heavily on public speech to deal with the ne...

COM 312-EXAM 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED Helen - answerHelen of Troy - blamed for the Trojan War, wife of Menelaus; mentioned in the Illiad; defended by Gorgias Herodotus - answerWrote "The Histories" - traveled the known world, wrote on politics and culture Heraclitus - answerWrote "Fragments", ascending/descending = the same, simultaneous contradictions; truth cannot be grasped; philosopher of "becoming" ("we are and we are not"); "You cannot step into the same ri...

COM 312-EXAM 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED Helen - answerHelen of Troy - blamed for the Trojan War, wife of Menelaus; mentioned in the Illiad; defended by Gorgias Herodotus - answerWrote "The Histories" - traveled the known world, wrote on politics and culture Heraclitus - answerWrote "Fragments", ascending/descending = the same, simultaneous contradictions; truth cannot be grasped; philosopher of "becoming" ("we are and we are not"); "You cannot step into the same ri...

Thales correct answers Father of Western Philosophy. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water. Anaximander (610-546 BC) correct answers universe starts with nothing in particular because the base element is limitless and eternal Anaximenes correct answers proposed that the beginning of all things was air, asked if we have a beginning point Heracitus correct answers you never step in the same river twice The question of flux and constancy correct answer...

UIL LITERARY CRITICISM EXAM TEST (QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS)2024/2025 According to the essay "Ancient Athenian Drama," before the invention of tragedy there were contests in which rhapsodes recited parts of what works of literature? - CORRECT ANSWER-Homer's Iliad and Odyssey What did Aeschylus supposedly call his own work? - CORRECT ANSWER-"Slices from the feast of Homer" What does the essay say about the entrances and exits of characters in Greek drama? - CORRECT ANSWER-To...

COMMRC 0310 FINAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS Plato View of Reality - Answer-Have to look beyond physical world Aristotle View of Reality - Answer-Look at world before us Aristotle 5 Subjects - Answer-Physics Metaphysics Nicomachean Ethics Politics The soul and poetics 4 Ways to Create Ethos - Answer-Actions Deeds Understanding Expertise Enhancing with Pathos - Answer-Combine with ethos or logos First sophists - Answer-People wanted to use rhetoric to con people Al...