POL 4 Lecture 2: Plato Book 1

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Elenchus is good at confronting people with beliefs systems with internal inconsistencies, and hold these inconsistencies up to a person and make them aware and realize. Have to use a different technique to build up a questioning of justice litigious direct democracy like athens , where forensic skills were at a premium: professional, generally itinerant instructors of rhetoric , whose services were vital in a. Art of rhetoric: how to debate, how to persuade people (to get them to vote in your favor), etc. Direct democracy - everyone getting together and discussing policies, then all. Human convention and cultures vary across time and place. Moral relativism - what is right and wrong varies by time and place i. ii. In some sense, this is a very conservative attitude because it is saying. Wherever you are, follow the rules : plato and his teacher, socrates, vilified them for being more concerned with victory than truth.

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