ENGL 3045 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dianoia, Noumenon, Techne
11 Apr 2016
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Irrationality things appeal to something other than reason, irrational things can change your opinion, overpowering. You can persuade someone for the good or for the bad, depends on the speaker and the rhetoric. Gorgias is a rhetorical theorist presents us with rhetorical theory because everything he talks about focuses on the audience and how the work as an effect on the audience. Plato is not a rhetorical theorist rather, a cognitive theory (intellect) as well as emotional theory, both with ethical consequences. Plato republic, book x: objects (above the line is good) Sensible object (things that, with your five senses, you can sense. Images (eikones: activities of the mind associated with objects. Tragedy is not healthy for you because impersonating that will be upsetting to you. Our reason should be active, action oriented, we shouldn"t be ruled by passion, our emotions.
