CMST 2060 Chapter : Ch 1-Canons Of Rhetoric
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Answers (this is rhetoric) of persuasion and inventional art techniques of public speaking trained in rhetoric. First written down in 600 b. c on the island of sicily by coraxititius. Associated with the tradition of handbooks that outline the basic: only aristocratic had these handbooks; ordinary people weren"t, this is shown through long speeches such as achilles" and. Rhetoric was very popular until he came along and attacked rhetoric. He thought rhetoric was proving: plato was a critic of the handbooks and rhetoric (objectivist) (in reality, he actually used rhetoric a lot). Plato wanted philosophical schools, rhetoric schools were his competition. Plato blames rhetoric for the death of socrates. In his story phaedrus, he makes fun of the handbooks. Socrates tells phaedrus the things that are important in the handbook and asks if he missed anything and phaedrus says nothing important when really socrates was missing the most of education hierarchy.
