CMNS 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: P.M. News, Artistic License, Sophist
1 Jun 2017
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And why did plato hate them so much: plato"s divided line and the allegory of the cave o plato"s gorgias. Rhetoric and communication: learning outcomes for week 3, introduce aristotle, comparing and contrasting plato and aristotle, rationalism (plato) versus empiricism (aristotle) o aristotle"s theory of rhetoric, aristotle"s rhetorica, means of persuasion: ethos, pathos, logos. Rhetoric and communication: what we will be covering this week: Aristotle"s historia animalium (the natural history of animals: plato invokes the story of the egyptian god theuth and king thamus: Plato"s school, 1st century bce, mosaic from pompeii. Thamus and theuth: writing destroys memory, writing is unresponsive to questioning, writing has no authentically human dimension (late for class) Reflecting on plato"s passage on writing and memory: while the passage was written by plato, it is attributed to socrates. Aristotle didn"t share this harsh view on writing. Plato"s writing shows evidence of the oral tradition; it is readerly in this sense.
