COMM 1025 Lecture Notes - Sicilian School, Tisias, Rhetoric
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Name of the study of communication in ancient greece. Professional speech teachers who teach the tricks of persuasive speaking for use in the law courts. Purpose: to win the case, not about the truth. 2 schools develop in (5th century bc) both responding to the philosophy that says rhetoric is the truth: It isn"t (nothing exists, so no truth) Man is the measure of all things, of things that are what they are, of things that are not that they are not . They know what they know because they decide. Demonstrate the truth, lay it out before their eyes so no one dispute. Concepts are unchanging and can be known (truth exists) Goal of communications was to discover the truth, not win arguments. The gorgias: claimed rhetoric to be false art. An art can be directed to an object that is either the soul or body.
