RHETOR 103A Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Alcidamas, Sophist, Socratic Method
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Study strategies (1) lecture notes (2) section notes (3) reread important passages (something mentioned in section or lecture) (4) active notetaking - highlight, underline, questions, confusions, common themes (5) meet and discuss of readings. How do different texts create distinction between these. Structure of care: relationship between asking questions and caring for the. Socrates representation (as a man, character, metaphor, myth) in different texts interlocutor. Speaking in law courts and politics in athens as primary usage of rhetoric (public use of rhetoric, litigious atmosphere) Purpose of rhetoric - use and abuse. Plato, antithenes, aristotle, alcidamas different in their views. Relationship between power of persuasion and the urge to define, shape, delimit, control, or bring it into good service. Rhetoric based on probability rather than fact. Book 1 chapter 1 sentence: rhetoric is an antistrophos (counterpart) to dialectic other. Rhetoric and dialectic go hand in hand, balancing act, need each.
