MODR 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ad Hominem, Aristocracy, Sophocles
22 Feb 2019
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Modr 1770 - techniques of persuasion stamos fall 2012. Study note 09 - passage analysis 1. Step 2 (put all of it on one page, i. e. don"t make your reader flip pages) When extracting the structure of an argument, conclusion on top, major premises below them, then their supporting premises below them. What is lower should give support to what is higher (hence the arrows go up) A premise is a reason to believe something. Illustration (new and improved version: lowes dickinson, a modern symposium . [my new and improved but not yet satisfactory map] pg. P10: aristocracy is the ideal political system. 1) an upper class presupposes a class of workers to support it as mere means . 2) the way things are in nature is also the way things are in human society . 3) exploitation of the lower by the higher is the law of the world in which we live .
