COMM 1014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lentini, Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Odysseus
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The oldest written examples of rhetoric in the western world. Provide reasons for your conlusions persuade based on evidence. Agamemnon and achilles argue over briseis (cid:523)(cid:498)the spoils of war(cid:499)(cid:524) Nestor: (cid:498)a famous orator(cid:499) (cid:498)an orderly arrangement that is beautiful(cid:499) This was the earliest use of rhetoric/persuasion as (cid:498)a crucial first step toward science and philosophy as these disciplines endure today(cid:499) (cid:498)the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible(cid:499) All is earth, water, air, and fire (cid:523)the (cid:498)roots(cid:524) (cid:498)one does not step in the same river twice(cid:499) rhetoric/magic. All is in a state of flux (fluctuation); therefore, all is change: Permanence o f the cosmos: (cid:498)all things that mortals have established are just a name(cid:499) Ambassador from leontini to athens (civil war on the island of sicily) If it did exist, we couldn"t know it. (cid:498)we only expereicen reality through words we use to call reality into existence. (cid:499) (cid:523)m. k. , (cid:884)00(cid:885)(cid:524)
