ENG 720 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Doxa, Episteme, Dialectic
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The history of public argument and personal rhetoric in popular culture. ^persuasion is like the centre of that dmsmith@ryerson. ca. Gorgias by plato we need by next week or smth. Epist m - knowledge (of what is true) or scienti c knowledge (secure knowledge of laws governing reality) Persuasion and faith don"t require the same proof as episteme faith = believing in something you can"t see persuasion = believing/doing something checkpp. Good judgement, wits, intelligence, instinctive, situated in the instant of the moment. No need to refer to specialized knowledge. Love of pursuit of knowledge sophists: like early teachers. There are certain things that we can"t know. All beliefs (doxa) are true (for the guy believing) but some beliefs are better than others. For any logos there is an opposite logos. It"s possible to make the weaker logos stronger. arguments are freq. based on desire. Gorgias asks riddles and stuff to get you to think.
