INI201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Socratic Dialogue, Pathos
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We study rhetoric because it helps us better understand the methods used to persuade (and manipulate) us as well as those that we wish to employ to persuade others. Characterizes rhetorical persuasion as a form of seduction of one"s audience. Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it. Even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can"t be communicated to others. Even if it can be communicated, it cannot be understood. Therefore, we can know nothing about the world. Socrates" literate student, who recorded the socratic dialogues. Philosophy the pursuit of truth and wisdom. Sometimes referred to as ideas: ideal forms or perfect examples, the perfect circle or perfect beauty. Forms are ultimate reality, and they are eternal and unchanging. Plato posits two worlds, the world of being (where the forms are located) and the world of becoming (where we live, the world that is always changing)
