Exam 1 cont.

Question 1

Techne

Answer 1

The art of Rhetoric taught by sophists

Question 2

Nomoi

Answer 2

The laws & values of different Polis’

Question 3

Encomium

Answer 3

Speech of praise

Question 4

Nous

Answer 4

The mind

Question 5

Corax & Tsias

Answer 5

Teacher & student from sicily. Created an organizational structure for rhetoric (Proem, narration, conf/ref, & peroration) as well as the Doctrine of Probability.

Question 6

Thesis of Encomium to Helen

Answer 6

Helen is not guilty

Question 7

4 reasons Helen is innocent

Answer 7

Fate, Love, Persuasion, and Force

Question 8

What is Encomium to Helen really about?

Answer 8

Rhetoric

Question 9

Where does the Gorgias take place?

Answer 9

Callicles house

Question 10

Dialogue

Answer 10

Conversation (Philosopher to Student)

Question 11

Dialectic

Answer 11

Philosopher to Philosopher. Focus on collection and division of arguments.

Question 12

Bad Rhetoric

Answer 12

Sophists to the masses. Provides the audience with what is pleasurable but no good. Does not lead to Truth and is not based on knowledge of the soul.

Question 13

Piety

Answer 13

Important value to a city state

Question 14

Main question of Gorgias?

Answer 14

Is rhetoric good or bad?

Question 15

Aporetic

Answer 15

Inconclusive ending

Question 16

Polus

Answer 16

Student in the Gorgias

Question 17

Plato on decision makers

Answer 17

Thinks they are uninformed and not users of dialectic. Their choices are too based in opinion.

Question 18

Physis v. Nomoi

Answer 18

Nature v. Convention

Question 19

Dialectic & the audience

Answer 19

Conversation allows for clarity. Leads audience closer to the good.

Question 20

Noble Rhetoric

Answer 20

Philosopher to the masses. Ethical and related to knowledge, power, and politics. Based on a knowledge of souls and seeks to show others knowledge of the good.

Question 21

Socrates on Oratory

Answer 21

Oratory does not lead us closer to the Truth. It is quick with an immediate response and unjust rather than carefully thought out. Prefers Discussion. Knack, flattery, and cookery. Gives what is pleasing not what is good.

Question 22

Socrates on Discussion

Answer 22

Discussion is long & drawn out. It is also just & carefully considered. It brings us closer to the Truth.

Question 23

Gymnastics

Answer 23

Cosmetics

Question 24

Medicine

Answer 24

Pastry Baking

Question 25

Legislation

Answer 25

Sophistry

Question 26

Justice

Answer 26

Oratory

Question 27

Is is worse to do something unjust or have something unjust done to you?

Answer 27

Worse to do something unjust because you're consciously doing something wrong.

Question 28

What is worse than doing something unjust?

Answer 28

Acting unjustly and not being punished because you'll continue the unjust behavior.

Question 29

Just Actions

Answer 29

Examine power, temperance, & virtue. Good orators instill these in an audience.

Question 30

Lysias

Answer 30

One of the great speakers. Just gave a speech on why Friendship is better than love when you're choosing a mentor.

Question 31

Where does phaedrus take place?

Answer 31

Outside the city walls. This is outside of socrates comfort zone. He prefers to stay in the agora.

Question 32

Agora

Answer 32

Marketplace. Socrates hang out place.

Question 33

Kerimeikes

Answer 33

Graveyard. Epideictic speech.

Question 34

Areopagus

Answer 34

Courts. Forensic.

Question 35

Pynx

Answer 35

Deliberative.

Question 36

Acropolis

Answer 36

Highest point in the city. Temple.

Question 37

Socrates 1st Speech in Phaedrus

Answer 37

Disadvs. of an evil love as mentor

Question 38

Socrates 2nd Speech in Phaedrus

Answer 38

Advs. of a noble lover

Question 39

Why does socrates cover his face in his first speech?

Answer 39

Doesn't actually think what he's saying is true.

Question 40

Definition of Love

Answer 40

Gift from the gods, Divine Madness

Question 41

Good Passion

Answer 41

Knowledge & good

Question 42

Bad Passion

Answer 42

Desires

Question 43

How do horses gain their wings?

Answer 43

Beauty, wisdom & goodness

Question 44

White horse

Answer 44

The will. Pulls chariot upward toward knowledge of the Good & Heaven

Question 45

Black Horse

Answer 45

Appetite that leads us to intemperance.

Question 46

Charioteer

Answer 46

Reason. Guides us like dialectic.

Question 47

4 kinds of madness

Answer 47

Love, Mystic, Poetic, Inspiration

Question 48

Love

Answer 48

Aphrodite (Best kind of madness)

Question 49

Inspiration

Answer 49

Apollo

Question 50

Mystic

Answer 50

Dionysus

Question 51

Poetic

Answer 51

Muses

Question 52

Rhetorical Structure

Answer 52

Preamble, Statement of facts, Indirect evidence, Claims to plausibility, Confirmation & Supplementary confirmation, Refutation & Supplementary refutation, & Recapitulation

Question 53

5 Cannons

Answer 53

``` Invention (building the arguments) Disposition (organization) Style (language use) Memory Delivery ```

Question 54

Knowing Souls of Audience

Answer 54

1- Identify souls a precisely as possible 2- How are souls acted upon by certain things 3- Classify the souls & the appropriate speech