WRIT 1000 Lecture Notes - Sophist, Pronuntiatio, Enthymeme
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Our real goal is to give a way to arrange your analysis. Want to make your analysis convincing; probable to your reader. Rhetoric is inseparable from social life: rhetoric is also linked to ethics and morals, plato is looking at unchangeable truths, aristotle studied the things he found carefully. There is an idea that rhetoric is not as serious as philosophy: sophistry had a bad rep. The things we know and understand are probable, they are socially constructed rhetorical truth. Rhetoric was a very positive thing: developed a more positive reputation, way to generate knowledge about any topic and an essential force for civilization. Sophists came to be seen as very clever but don"t do much: very articulate. Sophists tend to be skeptics: they were precursors to genre theory. The seven liberal arts are important to us here and now because: we are at an institution that has a liberal education.
