Today’s Plan:
- Key passages in Books 2 and 3 (10 minutes)
- Halloran article (15 minutes)
- A (Fun?) Rhetorical Exercise (50 minutes)
- For Next Class
A (Fun?) Rhetorical Exercise
A major claim of Gorgias (or at least one attributed to him) was the ability to spontaneously compose a speech on any subject. Likewise, he claimed the ability to argue equally as persuasive on either side of an issue. Let’s see if we can channel his spirit.
We will need topics for our debate.
Let us think of our Aristotle–what must we be sure to do?
For Next Class
We aren’t going to read Isocrates’ primary texts, but we are going to engage secondary theory about him. For Monday:
- Sullivan, “Ethos of Epideictic Encounter”
- Haskins, “Choosing between Isocrates and Aristotle”
- Haskins, “”Mimesis” between Poetics and Rhetoric: Performance Culture and Civic Education in Plato,Isocrates, and Aristotle”
- Benoit, “Isocrates and Plato on Rhetoric and Rhetorical Education”
