COMM1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hyperbole, Counterargument, Maria Edgeworth
3 Apr 2016
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*plato (continued) manipulating audiences: misleading, exaggerated association with power: celebrity, confidence, money relationship to truth justice (to become an enlightened person, you must seek knowledge. We must have knowledge+ rhetoric to attain justice. ) Plato wrote a dialogue called the gorgias (it"s not the person) about socrates. Without true knowledge, true justice can"t be found. Democracy will fail because the entire world will not be fully engaged to knowledge. If we can create a more ordered society . The importance of aristotle in the development of rhetoric. Because truth and justice are naturally stronger than their opposites; so that, when awards are not given duly, truth and justice must have been worsted by their own fault. Truth and justice are naturally gonna rise to the surface. If they fail to win in a debate, then it"s not the fault of truth and justice, but the fault of the rhetor. Rhetoric, legal perspective; we should focus more on the common good.
