COMM 3600 EXAM 1 (FILLIPPELI) | COMPREHENSIVE PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
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Corax - correct answer ✔✔o Taught rhetoric in 5th Century BCE Sicily, Syracuse
o offered to teach individuals how to make their cases in the courts so they could win their case
for family claim
o approach to teaching rhetoric was used as a model for other teachers in Greece, particularly
those in Athens
Gorgias of Leontini - correct answer ✔✔o was one of the earliest and most famous orators and
teachers of rhetoric.
o Skeptical Philosophy*
-Nothing exists
-If anything exists, we could not know it
-If we could know it, we would not be able to communicate it
o Boasted he could persuade anyone of anything at anytime
o Regarded persuasion as an "art of deception"
o Advocacy of Rhetoric was based on its "ability to make men slaves by persuasion, not force"
Protagoras - correct answer ✔✔Man is the measure of all things.
o First person to systematize eristic argument or contrived disputes with no goal other than
victory (debates)
o Taught a practical approach to reasoning
o Logos vs antilogos arguments
- most famous sophist
Isocrates - correct answer ✔✔o Was a native American who taught rhetoric in Athens, but
disapproved of much of what Sophists such as Gorgias and Protagoras taught
, o Was a famous teacher, but not as a speaker
o Maintained that Arete (virtue) could not be taught
o Liberal arts--established the most important school in Greece
Aspasia - correct answer ✔✔Lived in the 5th century BCE and was Pericles' companion
o One of the greatest Greece generals and orators
o Greek term for women like this person was hetaera or courtesan. These women were
educated appeared in public and gave speeches.
The Sophists - correct answer ✔✔Taught techne of logos or argumentation; teacher of rhetoric
o Taught mostly argumentation
Socrates - correct answer ✔✔o The most important and famous philosopher of all time
o Taught Plato
o Philosophy was the search for Truth
o Suspicious of Athenian democracy
o Socratic Method was the means by which ideas and issues were examined until Truth was
finally revealed
o Philosophy was the only real path to knowledge (the IDEAL of everything)
o 2 speeches on love:
- 1st was focusing on the insanity of love
-2nd was a declaration that his first speech was a sin against the gods, especially Eros
Plato - correct answer ✔✔Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
o One of the most important philosophers of ancient Greece
o Student of Socrates
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Corax - correct answer ✔✔o Taught rhetoric in 5th Century BCE Sicily, Syracuse
o offered to teach individuals how to make their cases in the courts so they could win their case
for family claim
o approach to teaching rhetoric was used as a model for other teachers in Greece, particularly
those in Athens
Gorgias of Leontini - correct answer ✔✔o was one of the earliest and most famous orators and
teachers of rhetoric.
o Skeptical Philosophy*
-Nothing exists
-If anything exists, we could not know it
-If we could know it, we would not be able to communicate it
o Boasted he could persuade anyone of anything at anytime
o Regarded persuasion as an "art of deception"
o Advocacy of Rhetoric was based on its "ability to make men slaves by persuasion, not force"
Protagoras - correct answer ✔✔Man is the measure of all things.
o First person to systematize eristic argument or contrived disputes with no goal other than
victory (debates)
o Taught a practical approach to reasoning
o Logos vs antilogos arguments
- most famous sophist
Isocrates - correct answer ✔✔o Was a native American who taught rhetoric in Athens, but
disapproved of much of what Sophists such as Gorgias and Protagoras taught
, o Was a famous teacher, but not as a speaker
o Maintained that Arete (virtue) could not be taught
o Liberal arts--established the most important school in Greece
Aspasia - correct answer ✔✔Lived in the 5th century BCE and was Pericles' companion
o One of the greatest Greece generals and orators
o Greek term for women like this person was hetaera or courtesan. These women were
educated appeared in public and gave speeches.
The Sophists - correct answer ✔✔Taught techne of logos or argumentation; teacher of rhetoric
o Taught mostly argumentation
Socrates - correct answer ✔✔o The most important and famous philosopher of all time
o Taught Plato
o Philosophy was the search for Truth
o Suspicious of Athenian democracy
o Socratic Method was the means by which ideas and issues were examined until Truth was
finally revealed
o Philosophy was the only real path to knowledge (the IDEAL of everything)
o 2 speeches on love:
- 1st was focusing on the insanity of love
-2nd was a declaration that his first speech was a sin against the gods, especially Eros
Plato - correct answer ✔✔Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
o One of the most important philosophers of ancient Greece
o Student of Socrates
