Final review Flashcards
(44 cards)
Tropes
Words with a common place
What are experts?
People who can perform better in certain area than the general public
Dialogic Expertise
Expertise based on many people talking
What are wikipedia’s five pillars of acceptance?
neutral point of view, free licensing, respectful domain, and no firm rules or policies.
What is traditional expertise reliant on?
It is fundamentally reliant on adherence to accepted practices of knowing
What is plato’s world of forms?
A place where everything is perfect, a place that this world is based off of
What is dialectic?
A philosophical method that provides true knowledge
What is socratic?
Very questioning, scared students into learning
What is techne?
An experience, habitude, or knack
According to Gorgias what is rhetoric?
An art used to convince people
According to socrates/plato what is rhetoric?
Rhetoric is a way to tell people to get something or side one way without teaching them as to why they should view that thing in a certain way
What does dialectic have to do with plato’s theory of forms?
Dialectic is the process of finding the object closest to its ideal form
What do sophists do according to plato?
They just try to sell things and convince people in a sly way. They are greedy
What is Protagoras’ homo menus thesis?
Man is the measure of all things. What humans know is constrained by their senses
What is truth to plato?
Truth is absolute and exists only in the world of forms
What is truth to sophists?
Truth is constructed in the community
Doxa
Doxa is the publics opinion or belief. Must know dosa in order to be persuasive
What did Isocrates believe in?
Philosophy is good we will never know higher truth outside of ourselves
Devote onesself to public good
Must be ethical self governors
Use rhetoric to achieve this
According to Isocrates, what is education
Education is being well-rounded
What is kairos?
Moment of decision or action
According to Isocrates what should be in a rhetor?
Persuasion and ethics
Who was Aristotle?
Plato’s pupil
Epistemology is what
Epistemology is what we can know
What were plato, isocrates, and aristotles big ideas?
Plato:World of forms
Socrates:Truth in culture
Aristotle: Natural (human) world