ENG205H1 Lecture Notes - Quadrivium, Diophantine Equation, Dialectic
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Second half is short analysis of a small speech we have not seen before and must answer questions about it. Was born around the time gorgias came into athens and was born into an. Was particularly interested in mathematics, geometrics and abstracts; saw them as the path to truths. He believed that there is a truth out there: there are aspects out there that do not change. He had the idea that you could find the answer to these questions, although it may not be easy. Plato was interested in the abstraction- he called them the idea or form. Someone who is about finding what is real. Rhetoric was a tekne: plato disagreed with that point of view. Socrates had this notion that people were way to confident in what they believed: challenged them. There is a complex, fictional version of these characters, plato is not giving us a journalistic conversation.
