COM 415 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Rhetoric, Sophist, Empathy
21 May 2020
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Can make any bad person seem good in a certain light. Drug that can take control of your thoughts and body; no universal or absolute truth or reality - all linguistically constructed. Changes your perceptions, takes over your body and mind. Not something that can truly be learned. Plato speaks through socrates and works gorgias up. Gorgias says it is more powerful to convince people you know about science than it is to actually know about science. If anything did exist, we could not know it. If we could know that something existed, we wouldn"t be able to communicate it to someone else. Legal speech to defend helen of troy (equivalent of defending jefferey. Helen: beautiful woman who sparked trojan war. Ethical issues: focus on value judgments concerning degrees of right and wrong, virtue and vice and ethical obligations in human conduct. 1+ people attempting to influence others by altering beliefs, attitudes, values, and actions.
