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Values of Ancient Greece
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Balance, beauty, writing, language, democracy
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Aristotle's 3 main genres of speaking
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Deliberative, forensic, epideictic
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Sophists
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-traveling teachers of rhetoric-believed they could teach virtue-would give speeches as advertisements for their services- not all opinions are equally valid
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Suspicions of sophists
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Claim that they could teach virtue, sold education
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Dissoi-logoi
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-ability to argue both sides of a position equally and as strongly- for every argument there is a counterargument
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Isocrates 1
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-knowledge is contingent-truth comes from clash of ideas(the ability to argue one's position is fundamental to one's success)
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Isocrates 2
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Rhetoric is an examination of ideas and constant weighing of evidence will make you a better person(study of rhetoric leads to virtue)
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Kairos
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Fitness for the occasionex. a wedding toast vs. a eulogy
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2 aims of the rhetorical art
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Terpsis and pistis
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Terpsis
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Aesthetic pleasure
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Pistis
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-creation of belief
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Philosophy vs. rhetoric
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-similar in logical form, evidence, etc- difference: use of argument in the public sphere, community
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Aspasia
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- one of the few women mentioned in ancient writings-courtesan, educated-wrote funeral oration of Herocles
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Protagoras
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-known as father of debate-1st person to apply dissoi logoi-idea of choice, how choices can be tragic-controversial bc if there is no truth, gods can not have all the answers-highlighted importance of human experience
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3 kinds of sophists
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1. basic speech writers, taught art of speaking2. teachers of grammar and delivery3. those who considered themselves philosophers (usually argued bigger picture, language, choice, etc.)
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