CHC Exam 1 Gorgias Questions with correct answers

The book ends with a speech, you should be able to answer these things about the speech: Why the judgement was fouled up? What is Tartarus? Who goes there and for how long? Who is number 1 on Socrates's list for people who get sent to Tartarus? - Answer Because people were wearing their nicest clothes and items and were surrounded by a jury of their peers to mask their scars in order to get into the isles of the blessed. Tartarus is the primordial deity of the deep, gloomy place beneath the underworld, a realm of eternal darkness. those sent t here remain there for all eternity Rhetoricians are first on the list of people sent to Tartarus because they spent their life lying and persuading people rather than focusing on bettering them. Why does Socrates not want to listen to Gorgias' speech? - Answer Because Gorgias' speech was long-winded and typically convincing based on style and delivery. Socrates wanted to learn what exactly Georgias' expertise was and its specific use. Who practices rhetoric according to Gorgias? - Answer According to Gorgias, practitioners can be found using rhetoric in courts of law, to garner a vote, and to persuade an audience thet they, a non-expert, knows more on a topic than an actual expert. According to Socrates, is rhetoric an art or a knack? What is a knack? - Answer Socrates replies that rhetoric is a knack that produces "a kind of gratification and pleasure" b ut has no intrinsic value.